Mutiny on the Bounty

by Peter Fitzsimons

  69 Rutter, The Court Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, Hodge and Company, Glasgow, 1931, p. 73 [reported speech].

  70 Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny on board his Majesty’s Ship Bounty, Smith, London, 1838, p. 39 [reported speech].

  71 Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny on board his Majesty’s Ship Bounty, Smith, London, 1838, p. 39.

  72 Rutter, The Court Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, Hodge and Company, Glasgow, 1931, p. 186 [reported speech].

  73 Rutter, The Court Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, Hodge and Company, Glasgow, 1931, p. 186.

  74 Rutter, The Court Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, Hodge and Company, Glasgow, 1931, p. 186.

  75 Rutter, The Court Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, Hodge and Company, Glasgow, 1931, p. 186.

  76 Rutter, The Court Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, Hodge and Company, Glasgow, 1931, p. 186.

  77 Rutter, The Court Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, Hodge and Company, Glasgow, 1931, p. 186.

  78 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 94.

  79 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 94.

  80 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 162.

  81 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 162.

  82 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 83.

  83 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 86.

  84 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 86.

  85 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 83.

  86 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 195.

  87 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 83.

  88 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 162.

  89 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 163.

  90 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 90.

  91 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 173.

  92 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 173.

  93 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 173.

  94 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 37.

  95 Brunton, Awake, Bold Bligh!, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989, p. 27. Author’s note: Bligh did not include this detail in the first letter to Betsy, but in the first letter to her uncle. Clearly, Bligh does not want his wife to know all the details or how many times he came close to death; he is a devoted husband and does not want to upset her more than he has to.

  96 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 156.

  97 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 136.

  98 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 136.

  99 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 136.

  100 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 136.

  101 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 73.

  102 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 73.

  103 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 73 [reported speech].

  104 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 73.

  105 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 73.

  106 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 102.

  107 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 102.

  108 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 102.

  109 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 73.

  110 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 73.

  111 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 73.

  112 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 73.

  113 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, pp. 73–74.

  114 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  115 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  116 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  117 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  118 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  119 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74 [reported speech].

  120 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  121 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74 [reported speech].

  122 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  123 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 163 [reported speech].

  124 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 163 [reported speech].

  125 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 163.

  126 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 163.

  127 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 163.

  128 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 163.

  129 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 163.

  130 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 163.

  131 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 163.

  132 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 241. Author’s note: Morrison remembers Bligh’s question but says he could not hear the answer. Twenty-five years later, Alec Smith gives the answer to the question on Pitcairn in his own account, completely independent of Morrison’s evidence. The events of that morning made an impression that does not fade.

  133 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  134 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  135 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  136 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 136.

  137 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 145.

  138 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 136.

  139 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 114.

  140 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 186.

  141 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, pp. 186–87.

  142 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 187.

  143 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 187.

  144 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 129.

  145 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 129.

  146 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 75.

  147 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 187.

  148 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 83.

  149 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 83.

  150 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 28 April 1789, p. 353 [reported speech].

  151 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 101.

  152 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 101.

  153 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 187.

  154 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 187.

  155 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p
. 187.

  156 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 42.

  157 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 187.

  158 Christian, Fragile Paradise, p. 69.

  159 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 187.

  160 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 187.

  161 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 187.

  162 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 187.

  163 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 84.

  164 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 84.

  165 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 84.

  166 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 101.

  167 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 84.

  168 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 101.

  169 Rutter, The Court Martial of the Bounty Mutineers, Canada Law Book Company, Toronto, 1933, p. 75.

  Chapter 8

  1 Forster, A Voyage Round the World: in His Britannic Majesty’s Sloop, Resolution, commanded by Capt. Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4 and 5, Vol. II, B. White, London, 1777, pp. 108–109.

  2 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 28 April 1789, p. 356.

  3 Byron, The Works of Lord Byron Complete in One Volume, p. 311.

  4 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 140.

  5 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 45.

  6 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, pp. 74–75.

  7 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 75.

  8 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 94.

  9 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 94.

  10 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  11 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 94.

  12 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  13 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  14 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  15 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.

  16 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 129 [changed to evoke his Cockney accent].

  17 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 130 [changed to represent Manx accent].

  18 Bligh, The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty, Airmont, New York, 1965, p. 98.

  19 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 101.

  20 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 102.

  21 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 85.

  22 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 156 [reported speech].

  23 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 157.

  24 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 157. Author’s note: Although Bligh does not specify, I assume this is Charley Churchill speaking.

  25 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 92 [reported speech].

  26 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 188.

  27 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 92.

  28 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 188.

  29 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 188.

  30 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 188.

  31 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 79.

  32 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 79.

  33 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 57.

  34 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 57.

  35 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 102.

  36 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 180.

  37 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 28 April 1789, p. 355.

  38 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 28 April 1789, p. 353.

  39 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 104.

  40 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 102.

  41 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 102.

  42 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 145.

  43 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 43.

  44 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 164.

  45 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 164.

  46 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 164.

  47 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 164.

  48 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 165.

  49 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 165.

  50 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 87.

  51 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 188 [reported speech].

  52 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 188.

  53 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 188 [reported speech].

  54 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, pp. 188–89.

  55 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 189.

  56 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 75.

  57 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 75.

  58 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 59.

  59 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 59.

  60 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 59.

  61 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 158.

  62 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 161.

  63 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 161.

  64 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 142.

  65 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 142.

  66 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 142.

  67 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 189.

  68 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 165.

  69 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 76.

  70 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 165.

  71 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 44 [reported speech].

  72 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 44.

  73 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 165 [reported speech].

  74 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 189.

  75 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 189.

  76 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 189.

  77 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 165 [reported speech].

  78 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 28 April 1789, p. 357.

  79 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 165.

  80 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 86.

  81 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 177.

  82 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 86.

 
83 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 127.

  84 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 161.

  85 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 161.

  86 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 125.

  87 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 76.

  88 Morrison, After the Bounty, Potomac Books, Dulles, 2010, p. 41 [reported speech].

  89 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 76.

  90 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 76.

  91 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 115.

  92 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 76.

  93 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 165.

  94 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 165.

  95 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 165.

  96 Bligh, A voyage to the South sea, G. Nicol, London, 1792, p. 160.

  97 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 145.

  98 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 145.

  99 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 145.

  Chapter 9

  1 Dolan, The Old Farmer’s Almanac Book of Weather Lore: The Fact and Fancy Behind Weather Predictions, Superstitions, Old-time Sayings, and Traditions, Yankee Books, New Hampshire, 1988, p. 11.

  2 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 10.

  3 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 11.

  4 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 29 April 1789, p. 361.

  5 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 30 April 1789, p. 362.

  6 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 63.

  7 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 63.

  8 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 63.

  9 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 63.

  10 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 63.

  11 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 63.

  12 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 63.

  13 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 142.

  14 Author’s note: For the record, and in the old money, Bligh was 15 miles out in this estimation.