6/23/2017 0 Comments Paw Paw Patch Rarotonga![]() The Ancient Americas: migrations, contacts, and Atlantis. David Pratt May 2009, Aug 2011. Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, free ebooks, ebook, etext. Mutiny on the Bounty, free ebooks, ebook, etext. Title: Mutiny on the Bounty (1. Author: Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. A Project Gutenberg Australia e. Book *. e. Book No.: 0. Language: English. Date first posted: April 2. Date most recently updated: April 2. Project Gutenberg Australia e. Books are created from printed editions. ![]() Australia, unless a copyright notice. We do NOT keep any e. Books in compliance with a particular. Be sure to check the. You may copy it, give it away or re- use it under the terms. Project Gutenberg Australia License which may be viewed online at. ![]() ![]() GO TO Project Gutenberg Australia HOME PAGEMutiny on the Bountyby. Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The Bounty Trilogy. Wyeth Edition. Comprising the Three Volumes: Mutiny on the Bounty (1. Men Against the Sea (1. Pitcairn's Island (1. LIEUTENANT BLIGHCHAPTER II. Project Gutenberg Australia a treasure-trove of literature treasure found hidden with no evidence of ownership. For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. A five-day break is still a quick getaway, but offers the. Kia Orana, Rarotonga is a popular island holiday destination for Kiwis and has an impressive tourism infrastructure for an island of its size. At 32km in circumference it's relatively small, and you can drive the flat, coastal. AN INDIAN HOUSEHOLDCHAPTER VII. CHRISTIAN AND BLIGHCHAPTER VIII. HOMEWARD BOUNDCHAPTER IX. FLETCHER CHRISTIANCHAPTER XI. THE MOON OF PIPIRICHAPTER XIV. THE PANDORACHAPTER XV. DOCTOR HAMILTONCHAPTER XVI. THE ROUNDHOUSECHAPTER XVII. THE LAST OF THE PANDORACHAPTER XIX. TEN WEARY MONTHSCHAPTER XX. SIR JOSEPH BANKSCHAPTER XXI. THE CASE FOR THE CROWNCHAPTER XXIII. ![]() THE DEFENSECHAPTER XXIV. WITHYCOMBECHAPTER XXVII. EPILOGUEThe route of the Bounty's launch after being cast away by the. April 2. 8 1. 78. The route of the Bounty after her capture by the mutineers on. April 2. 8 1. 78. H. Bounty. They made a handsome couple(Go to this point in the text > > > )Captain Bligh was standing by in the mizzenmast(Go to this point in the text > > > )For a long time neither of us spoke(Go to this point in the text > > > )This was the only bit of land above water anywhere about(Go to this point in the text > > > )Well we knew what was happening there(Go to this point in the text > > > )OFFICERS AND CREW OF H. M. S. BOUNTY. Lieutenant William Bligh, Captain. John Fryer, Master. Fletcher Christian, Master's Mate. Charles Churchill, Master- at- Arms. William Elphinstone, Master- at- Arms's Mate. Samuel, Clerk. Robert Lamb, Butcher. William Brown, Gardener. Cooks. Thomas Burkitt John Williams. Matthew Quintal Thomas Ellison. John Sumner Isaac Martin. John Millward Richard Skinner. William Mc. Coy Matthew Thompson. Henry Hillbrandt William Muspratt. Alexander Smith Michael Byrne. PREFACEOn the twenty- third of December, 1. His Majesty's armed transport. Bounty sailed from Portsmouth on as strange, eventful, and tragic a. English ship. Her errand was to proceed to the island. Tahiti (or Otaheite, as it was then called), in the Great South Sea, there. West. Indies, where, it was hoped, the trees would thrive and thus, eventually. English. planters. The events of that voyage it is the purpose of this tale to unfold. Byam had his actual counterpart in the person of Peter Heywood, whose. Bounty's. company. Midshipman Byam's experience follows closely that of Midshipman. Heywood. With the license of hisorical novelists, the authors based the career. Byam upon that of I Heywood, but in depicting it they did not, of course. In the essentials, relating to the mutiny and. I. British Admiralty. Men Against the Sea, the second part of the narrative, is the story. Captain Bligh and the eighteen loyal men who, on the morning of lie mutiny. Bounty's launch, an open boat. In this small. craft Captain Bligh carried his men a voyage of 3. Tofoa (or Tofua, as it is now called), in the Friendly, or Tongan Group, to. Timor, in the Dutch East Indies. The wind and weather of Men Against the. Sea are those of Captain Bligh's own log, a series of brief daily notes. The voyage is. described in the words of one of those who survived it—Thomas Ledward. Bounty, whose medical knowledge and whose. Pitcairn's Island, which concludes the tale, is perhaps the strangest. After two unsuccessful attempts to settle on the. Tupuai (or Tubuai, as the name is now more commonly spelled), the. Tahiti, where they parted company. Fletcher Christian. Bounty and instigator of the mutiny, once more. With him were eight of his own. Polynesians (twelve women and six men). They sailed from. Tahiti in September 1. In February 1. 80. American sealing vessel Topaz. Pitcairn, discovered on this supposedly uninhabited crumb of land a. Polynesian women and. English seaman, Alexander Smith, the only survivor of the fifteen men who had. Various and discrepant accounts have been preserved concerning the events. Pitcairn during the eighteen years preceding the visit of. Topaz. The source of them all, direct or indirect, was Alexander. Smith (or John Adams, as he later called himself). He told the story first to. Captain Folger, of the Topaz; then, in 1. Captains Staines and. Pipon, of the English frigates Briton and Tagus; then to Captain. Beechey, of H. Blossom, in 1. J. Fifteen men and twelve women, of two widely different races, were set down. At the end of a decade. These are the facts upon which. If, at times, in the Pitcairn narrative, blood flows. Pitcairn history. But the outcome of those early turbulent years was no less extraordinary. All who. were fortunate enough to visit the Pitcairn colony during the first quarter of. Golden Age. Those who are interested in the source material concerning the Bounty. Appendix to Mr. George Mackaness's Life of Vice- Admiral. William Bligh, published by Messrs. Angus and Robertson, of Sydney. Australia. Among the principal sources consulted by the authors were the. Hamilton; The Life. Vice- Admiral William Bligh, by George Mackaness; The Story of. Pitcairn Island, by Rosalind Young; Captain Bligh's Second Voyage to the. South Seas, by I. Lee; Pitcairn Island Register Book; New South Wales. Historical Records; Cook's Voyages; Hawkesworth's Voyages. Beechey's Voyages; Ellis's Polynesian Researches; Ancient Tahiti. Teura Henry; and A Memoir of Peter Heywood. Two excellent studies of. Bounty mutineers, from the point of. Dr. Harry Shapiro in his. Descendants of the Bounty Mutineers and The Heritage of the. Bounty. We wish to express our cordial thanks to Mr. Wyeth, whose. illustrations lend so much colour and vividness to the story of the. Bounty and her men. June, 1. 94. 0. J. N. CHAPTER I.—LIEUTENANT BLIGHThe British are frequently criticized by other nations for their dislike of. England for those aspects of nature and life which. Here in the West Country, where I was born, men are slow of. The houses of my neighbours, the. Bristol Channel, all. And an old man, forty of whose. No men are more conservative than those who design and build ships save. Forty. years of this life have made a slave of me, and H continue, almost against my. There is no reason why I should rise at seven each. Times. would reach me even though I failed to order a horse saddled at ten for my ride. Watchet to meet the post. But habit is too much for me, and habit finds. Thacker, my housekeeper, whose duties, as I perceive. She will listen to no hint of retirement. In spite of her years. It would give me pleasure to speak. I try to draw. her into talk she wastes no time in putting me in my place. Servant and master. I am lonely now; when Thacker dies, I. Seven generations of Byams have lived and died in Withycombe; the name has. Quantock Hills for five hundred years and more. The present has lost. I have discovered, with some regret, that. But forty. years at sea, including the turbulent period of the wars against the Danes, the. Dutch, and the French, have left my memory so well stored that I ask no greater. My study, high up in the north wing of Withycombe, with its tall windows. Bristol Channel and the green distant coast of Wales, is the. The journal I have kept. I went to sea as a midshipman in 1. I have only to take up a sheaf of its pages to smell. North Sea, or to enjoy the calm beauty of a tropical night under the. Southern Hemisphere. In the evening, when the unimportant duties of an old man's day are done. I have supped alone in silence, I feel the pleasant anticipation of a. Town, who on his first evening spends an agreeable half- hour in. Shall I fight the old battles over. Camperdown, Copenhagen, Trafalgar—these names thunder in memory. Yet more and more frequently I turn the pages. I have spent a good part of my life in. Insignificant in the annals of the Navy, and even more so. It has long been my purpose to follow the example of other retired officers. The decision was made last night; I shall write. Bounty, of the mutiny on board, of my long. Tahiti in the South Sea, and of how I was conveyed. Two natures. clashed on the stage of that drama of long ago, two men as strong and. I have known—Fletcher Christian and William Bligh. When my father died of a pleurisy, early in the spring of 1. Sharing. the interest in the natural sciences which had brought my father the honour of. Fellowship in the Royal Society, my mother was a countrywoman at heart. Withycombe than for the artificial distractions of. I was to have gone up to Oxford that fall, to Magdalen, my father's college. I began to know her, not. I never. wearied. The women of her generation were schooled to reserve their tears for. A warm heart and. On the morning when Sir Joseph Banks's letter arrived, we were strolling. It was late in July, the sky was. English climate, which foreigners declare, perhaps with some. I was thinking how uncommonly handsome my. Thacker, her new maid,—a black- eyed Devon girl,—came tripping. She dropped my mother a curtsey and held out a letter on a. My mother took the letter, gave me a glance of apology, and began. Sir Joseph writes that he is on leave, stopping with friends. Taunton, and would enjoy an evening with us. Your father thought very. Bligh, bidding. him to dine with us that evening if he could. I remember how I set out, with. Bridgwater Bay. and how little I enjoyed the sail. My thoughts were all of our visitor, and the. 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