Over with trailing weed, and the paint on her sides, once a smartīlack, was now a scaling, rusty brown. Sails were patched and weather-beaten, her copper sheathing grown The Bounty was a little ship, of about two hundred tonsīurthen, stoutly rigged and built strongly of English oak. Ship, were allowed to establish themselves on shore. Number of innocent men who had been compelled to remain with the Returned to Tahiti, where some of the mutineers, as well as a After a disastrousĪttempt to settle on the island of Tupuai, the Bounty Loyal men, and the mutineers saw them no more. The mutiny was suddenly planned andĬarried swiftly into execution, on the morning of April 28, 1789.Ĭaptain Bligh was set adrift in the ship's launch, with eighteen
Revolt against Captain William Bligh, whose conduct he consideredĬruel and insupportable. Was westward bound, among the islands of the Tongan Group, FletcherĬhristian, second-in-command of the vessel, raised the men in When her mission on Tahiti had been accomplished and she Hoped that they might provide a supply of cheap food for the Them to the British plantations in the West Indies, where it was Thousand or more young plants of the breadfruit tree, and to convey HerĮrrand was an unusual one: to procure on that remote island a Spithead, two years before, bound for Tahiti in the South Sea. His Majesty's armed transport Bounty had set sail from The horizon a vessel-the only ship in all that vast Other mornings in the past, but away to the east and still below Hatched, settled themselves for the long hours of waiting, to doze,Īnd twitch, and sprawl in the sun. The fledglings, in the dizzy nests where they had been The horizon to the east was cloudless, and, as the sun rose,įlock after flock of birds swung away toward their fishing grounds Roosting places for gannet and frigate bird.
Temples, and the images of their gods, on the cliffs above, were Widest of oceans-the peace of the deep sea, and of nature Loneliness were here, in a little world set in the midst of the
Vegetation in the valleys and on the upper slopes, and at one placeĪ slender cascade fell into the sea. Less, but the fronds of scattered coconut palms rose above rich A boat'sĬrew might have pulled around this fragment of land in two hours or Lone rock rising from the sea, tall, ridged, foam-fringed at itsīase, with innumerable sea fowl hovering along the cliffs. Hour passed as the dawn sped westward another thousand miles, to a The statues of Rapa Nui's old kings kept watch along the cliffs. Land till the light touched the windy downs of Easter Island, where In all that desert of wrinkled blue there was no sail, nor any Peruvian coast and moved on, across a vast stretch of lonely Presently the level rays brought day to the Swept over the jungle of the Amazon, and glittered along the icy Moving swiftly westward, a thousand miles each hour, the light Illuminated San Roque, easternmost cape of the three Americas. Turned steadily on its course, a moment came when the sunlight On a day late in December, in the year of 1789, while the earth The "Topaz", with all sail set, was now far out The vowels in the Polynesian language are pronouncedĪpproximately as in Italian generally speaking, syllables are Pitcairn's Island (1934) ĬONTENTS Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX Chapter XXI Epilogue The Bounty Trilogy Wyeth Edition Comprising the Three Volumes: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) Pitcairn's Island by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall GO TO Project Gutenberg Australia HOME PAGE
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