A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship BountyGood Press, 2021 M11 9 - 68 pages This book is the log of Captain Bligh's remarkable voyage of 1200 miles to Dutch Timor with 18 crew in a 23-foot boat through uncharted and stormy waters of the Pacific without supplies. It is one of the rare, non-literary, contemporary, factual pieces of evidence by the ship's captain describing the hardships of the travel and the difficulty in managing the mutinous crew. |
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A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty William Bligh No preview available - 2017 |
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afternoon allowance of bread appeared baling Bay of Islands birds boat boatswain boobies bore bread and water bread-fruit breakfast captain Cook cloaths coast constantly Coupang course since yesterday dawn of day day-light dinner directed my course discovered distance distresses Ditto dolichos Endeavour Straits endeavoured fair weather Francis Cook Fresh gales Friday gannets gave grapnel gunner Holland JUNE 14 land Lebogue longitude M'INTOSH miles miserable morning mutineers natives Nelson night noon I observed northward o'clock observed the latitude ounce of pork oysters party passed person pint of water pound of bread quarter rain reef Restoration Island returned rocks sail sandy sandy bay Saturday served ship Shoal shore situation sleep southward suffered sun-set Sunday Island tea-spoonful of rum three leagues Thursday Timor usual allowance Victor Hirtzler voyage W N W Wednesday Wednesday Island William Bligh wind wine yesterday noon