The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H. M. S. Bounty: Its Causes and ConsequencesJohn Murray, 1831 - 356 sider A must-read for true-crime buffs and fans of maritime history, The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences is widely recognized as the most detailed historical account of the mutiny on the Bounty that has spawned dozens of novels, movies, and other pop-culture retellings. |
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... circumstances will admit of it , and I am persuaded that unbroken rest not only contributes much towards the health of the ship's company , but enables them more readily to exert themselves in cases of sudden emergency . ' Wishing to ...
... circumstances will admit of it , and I am persuaded that unbroken rest not only contributes much towards the health of the ship's company , but enables them more readily to exert themselves in cases of sudden emergency . ' Wishing to ...
Side 60
... circumstances equally pleasing and satisfactory . A very diffe- rent scene was now to be experienced . A con ... circumstance appeared to occasion the smallest suspicion of the impending calamity , the result of an act of piracy the most ...
... circumstances equally pleasing and satisfactory . A very diffe- rent scene was now to be experienced . A con ... circumstance appeared to occasion the smallest suspicion of the impending calamity , the result of an act of piracy the most ...
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... circumstances , equally desirable , it is now perhaps not so much to be wondered at , though scarcely possible to have been foreseen , that a set of sailors , most of them void of connec- tions , should be led away ; especially when ...
... circumstances , equally desirable , it is now perhaps not so much to be wondered at , though scarcely possible to have been foreseen , that a set of sailors , most of them void of connec- tions , should be led away ; especially when ...
Side 71
... circumstance that made them in the least suspect what was going on . To such a close- planned act of villainy , my mind being entirely free from any suspicion , it is not wonderful that I fell a sacrifice . Perhaps , if there had been ...
... circumstance that made them in the least suspect what was going on . To such a close- planned act of villainy , my mind being entirely free from any suspicion , it is not wonderful that I fell a sacrifice . Perhaps , if there had been ...
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... circumstance of his having been the friend of Captain Cook , with whom he sailed as his master , -of his ever afterwards being patronized by Sir Joseph Banks - of the Admiralty promoting him to the rank of commander , appointing him ...
... circumstance of his having been the friend of Captain Cook , with whom he sailed as his master , -of his ever afterwards being patronized by Sir Joseph Banks - of the Admiralty promoting him to the rank of commander , appointing him ...
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Adams affectionate appeared arms arrival assistance beloved boat boatswain Bounty bread bread-fruit brother brought called canoes Captain Beechey Captain Bligh Captain Cook Captain Edwards Captain Pipon carpenter Charles Churchill Christian Churchill clothes cocoa-nut Coleman commander conduct Cook Court court-martial crew dear dearest death deck distress doubt endeavour feeling feet Fletcher Christian Fryer gave Hallet hands happy Hayward heard honour hope innocence James Morrison John John Adams kind land launch letter Lieutenant Bligh M'Intosh Majesty's manner mate Matthew Quintal midshipman mind misery morning Morrison mutiny narrative natives NESSY HEYWOOD never night observes occasion officers ordered Otaheitan Otaheite Pandora party person Peter Heywood Pitcairn's Island plantains prisoners Quintal received remained sail says Bligh seamen ship shore sister situation soon Stewart sufferings taken Thomas Ellison Thursday October Christian tion told vessel voyage whole women young Heywood
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Side 243 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Side 61 - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
Side 167 - As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell, And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Side 146 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Side 167 - Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Side 170 - tis but the same; My pang shall find a voice. From my youth upwards My spirit walk'd not with the souls of men, Nor look'd upon the earth with human eyes ; The thirst of their ambition was not mine, The aim of their existence was not mine ; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger ; though I wore the form, I had no sympathy with breathing flesh, Nor midst the creatures of clay that girded me Was there but one who but of her anon.
Side 287 - As he wore no clothes except a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat, ornamented with black cock's feathers, his fine figure and well-shaped muscular limbs were displayed to great advantage, and attracted general admiration. His body was much tanned by exposure to the weather, and his countenance had a brownish cast, unmixed, however, with that tinge of red so common among the natives of...
Side 69 - ... .Notwithstanding the roughness with which I was treated, the remembrance of past kindnesses produced some signs of remorse in Christian. When they were forcing me out of the ship, I asked him if this treatment was a proper return for the many instances he had received of my friendship ? he appeared disturbed at my question, and answered, with much emotion, " That, Captain Bligh, that is the thing ; — I am in hell...
Side 43 - The bread-tree, which, without the ploughshare, yields The unreap'd harvest of unfurrow'd fields, And bakes its unadulterated loaves Without a furnace in unpurchased groves, And flings off famine from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest...
Side 242 - Majesty's ship or ships of war, and at such time or times, and at such place or places, as the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland...