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Proposition: If he would let the Mogul come unharmed into Los Angeles Harbor, her 40,000 cases of liquor ($500,000), owned by Frenchmen of Tahiti, would be put in a bonded warehouse to be sold "in accordance with any import quotas that...
...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...
Luckily a missing witness turned up. and almost at the last minute Byam was reprieved. Years later, still in His Majesty's service and still non-mutinous, he went to Tahiti again. His wife was dead, his half- caste daughter married. On Pitcairn Island he found the descendants and a few survivors of the Bounty's mutineers...
Both were 30. After the War they settled in Tahiti, married (Author Nordhoff to a native Tahitian) and have lived there ever since. No glorified beachcombers, they have worked hard & seriously, have produced between them a dozen books, three of them collaborations...