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...brig whose voyage to Tahiti and back was cut short in the Pacific by mutiny. In Mutiny on the Bounty (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932) Authors Nordhoff & Hall told the first part of the tale. Men against the Sea is a straightforward but circumstantial account of what happened to Captain Bligh and his men when the mutineers cast them off in an open boat in the mid-Pacific. (The final part, Pitcairn's Island, will be published this autumn.) Though Daniel Defoe still has a long lead, Authors Nordhoff & Hall are worthy followers of his tradition...
...Bligh, commander of the Bounty, was a man of ungovernable temper and crazy severity. He had his men flogged at the slightest excuse, short-changed them on their miserable rations, got himself mur- derously hated. Trouble was brewing all the long voyage out, but nothing broke till the Bounty had left Tahiti. Then one night two-thirds of the crew mutinied, put Bligh and his supporters in a dangerously crowded open boat and let them take a chance on reaching land. Narrator Byam was one of several non-mutineers who had to stay with the ship. The Bounty then returned...
Byam married a native girl, lived in Tahiti happily 18 months. As soon as a British ship appeared, he and his pals went trustingly to greet it were much surprised to be clapped in irons, treated like mutineers and pirates. Bligh and his open boat had gone 2,000 miles to land, thence shipped to England, and had denounced all the men who had not accompanied him in the boat as mutineers. On the voyage home Byam's ship was wrecked, some of the prisoners drowned...
Willed. By the late George Fisher Baker (TIME, May 11) : $60,000,000 to his son George Fisher Baker Jr.; $5,000,000 to his daughter Mrs. Howard Bligh St. George; $5,000,000 to his daughter Mrs. William Goadby Loew. To charity he left $550,000; to his secretary $25,000; to faithful servants, $68,500.* To his granddaughter, Florence Loew, he willed his country place at Tuxedo, New York...
...large Baker family. George Fisher Baker Jr. has four children: Florence (a debutante this year); Edith: George Fisher Baker 3rd; Grenville Baker. Mrs. Loew also has four children: Mrs. Edwin Main Post (who has one child, William); Mrs. Edward Livingston Burrill Jr.; Mrs. Richard Trimble; Florence Loew. Mrs. Howard Bligh St. George has three children: Evelyn Bligh St. George: George Baker St. George (who has a daughter, Priscilla); Robert Cecil St. George (who has a son, Robert). A third son, Howard Bligh St. George was killed at Ypres while leading a British cavalry charge...