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MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY.
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A NARRA TIKE OF THE
MUTINY ON BOARD THE BOUNTY,
CAPTAIN BLIGH, COMMANDER,
WITH
A most interesting account of Pitcairn’s Island, as describ-
ed by Lieut. John SiUibeer and others, in a Voyage of
Discovery, on board his Majesty's ship, the Briton, of 38
guns, in the year 1814, and their finding John Adams,
one of the mutineers of the ship Bounty, under the com-
mand of Captain Bligh, in the year 1788, after a lapse
of twenty-free years.
[Copied from the valuable and interesting narrative of the
Briton’s voyage to Pitcairn’s Island, including a sketch of the
present state of the Brazils and Spanish South America, by
Lieut. S. Shillibeer, R.M. illustrated with sixteen etchings
by himself.]
The Bounty sailed from England in the autumn of 1787, on
a voyage to the Society Islands, for bread-fruit trees, intended
for our West India settlements ; in which climate, it was the
opinion of Sir Joseph Banks, they might be successfully cul-
tivated, and prove a succedaneum for other provisions in
times of scarcity. The Bounty had made good the object
of her voyage, so far as to have received on board a great
number of these trees, in various stages of growth, and there
was every prospect of their being capable of preservation.
The ship, thus laden, quitted Otaheite on the 4th of April,
1789, and continued her course, in a westerly direction,
touching at one more island, and then meditating her progress
through the Pacific Ocean, towards the Moluccas. The
ship lost sight of the Friendly Islands on the 27th of that
month, and every thing like good order was supposed to pre-
vail on board ; even the mid-watch was relieved without the
least apparent disorder; but at day-break, on the 28th, the
cabin of Captain Bligh, who commanded the Bounty, was
t7
A NARRA TIKE OF THE
MUTINY ON BOARD THE BOUNTY,
CAPTAIN BLIGH, COMMANDER,
WITH
A most interesting account of Pitcairn’s Island, as describ-
ed by Lieut. John SiUibeer and others, in a Voyage of
Discovery, on board his Majesty's ship, the Briton, of 38
guns, in the year 1814, and their finding John Adams,
one of the mutineers of the ship Bounty, under the com-
mand of Captain Bligh, in the year 1788, after a lapse
of twenty-free years.
[Copied from the valuable and interesting narrative of the
Briton’s voyage to Pitcairn’s Island, including a sketch of the
present state of the Brazils and Spanish South America, by
Lieut. S. Shillibeer, R.M. illustrated with sixteen etchings
by himself.]
The Bounty sailed from England in the autumn of 1787, on
a voyage to the Society Islands, for bread-fruit trees, intended
for our West India settlements ; in which climate, it was the
opinion of Sir Joseph Banks, they might be successfully cul-
tivated, and prove a succedaneum for other provisions in
times of scarcity. The Bounty had made good the object
of her voyage, so far as to have received on board a great
number of these trees, in various stages of growth, and there
was every prospect of their being capable of preservation.
The ship, thus laden, quitted Otaheite on the 4th of April,
1789, and continued her course, in a westerly direction,
touching at one more island, and then meditating her progress
through the Pacific Ocean, towards the Moluccas. The
ship lost sight of the Friendly Islands on the 27th of that
month, and every thing like good order was supposed to pre-
vail on board ; even the mid-watch was relieved without the
least apparent disorder; but at day-break, on the 28th, the
cabin of Captain Bligh, who commanded the Bounty, was