Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bounty's voyage, as planned, looked almost like a two-year pleasure trip: she was to call at Tahiti by way of Cape Horn, take on a supply of breadfruit trees for the West Indies, and come home again...
...Bounty, left England for Tahiti. She never came back...
...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 to Tahiti, where...
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...
...readers learn that William Dursley's study is "a cozy higgledy-piggledy" and that he plays a high-spirited gambit at chess, they will doubtless be better prepared than Author Priestley's hero for what follows: a treasure hunt, for pitchblende, to Faraway Island via Manhattan, San Francisco, Tahiti. A transoceanic treasure hunt is a new sort of theme for Author Priestley but it is well suited to his fondness for sketching minor characters. Faraway is as full of them as a suburban telephone directory. William Dursley has three traveling companions: a retired naval officer who is curt and frosty...