15 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 64.
16 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, pp. 169–70.
17 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 171 [reported speech].
18 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 64.
19 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 64 [reported speech].
20 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 64 [reported speech].
21 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 175 [reported speech].
22 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 172 [reported speech].
23 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 172.
24 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 173 [reported speech].
25 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 173 [reported speech].
26 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 173.
27 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 173.
28 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 174.
29 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 173.
30 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 173 [reported speech].
31 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, pp. 173–74.
32 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 65 [reported speech].
33 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 174.
34 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 65. Author’s note: Fryer writes he said ‘Come into the ship’ but Bligh has it as ‘called him to return’.
35 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 174.
36 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 65.
37 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 175.
38 Bach, The Bligh Notebook, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1987, p. 47.
39 Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, p. 141. Author’s note: Bligh tells this to his uncle after returning to England. His uncle is so struck by these words that he writes them down in his own private copy of Bligh’s ‘Narrative’.
40 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 66 [reported speech].
41 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 66 [reported speech].
42 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 66.
43 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 66.
44 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 67 [reported speech].
45 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 176.
46 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 176.
47 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 3 May 1789, p. 367.
48 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 66.
49 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 176.
50 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 66.
51 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 176.
52 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, pp. 177–78.
53 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, pp. 177–78.
54 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, pp. 177–78.
55 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 178.
56 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, pp. 177–78.
57 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 50.
58 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 50.
59 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 50.
60 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 50 [reported speech].
61 Heywood, Innocent on the Bounty, p. 38.
62 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 50.
63 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 6 May 1789, p. 370.
64 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 7 May 1789, p. 371.
65 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 68.
66 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 68.
67 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 68.
68 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 68.
69 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 68.
70 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 25.
Chapter 10
1 Shedd (ed.), The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, pp. 232–33.
2 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, pp. 26–27 [tense changed].
3 Bligh, A voyage to the South sea, 1792, p. 185.
4 Bligh, A voyage to the South sea, 1979, p. 195.
5 Bligh, A voyage to the South sea, 1979, p. 195.
6 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 27.
7 Bligh, A voyage to the South sea, 1792, p. 185 [reported speech].
8 Bligh, A voyage to the South sea, 1792, p. 185 [reported speech].
9 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 51 [reported speech].
10 Bligh, A voyage to the South sea, 1792, p. 197.
11 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 20 May 1789, p. 384.
12 Author’s note: This was a standard method for caulking ships in the 18th century. I presume it was used by the Bounty men although there is no detailed record of them using this precise method.
13 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 31.
14 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 33.
15 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 68.
16 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 68.
17 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 68.
18 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 68.
19 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 68.
20 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 68.
21 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 69.
22 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 69.
23 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 51.
24 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, pp. 52–53.
25 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 53.
26 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 54.
27 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 54.
28 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 54.
29 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 69.
30 Bach, The Bligh Notebook, p. 115.
31 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 69.
32 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 69.
33 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 69.
34 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 70.
35 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 55.
36 Bligh, Log, 29 May 1789.
37 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 111 [reported speech].
38 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, pp. 205–206.
39 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 203.
40 Author’s note: Joseph Banks was the first to obtain the name ‘kangaroo’ from a native on 23 June 1770.
41 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 203.
42 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 203.
43 Bligh, Log, 30 May 1789.
44 Bligh, Notebook and List of Mutineers, 1789, NLA, MS 5393, 30 May 1789, [no page numbers].
45 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 70.
46 Bligh, Notebook and List of Mutineers, [no page numbers].
47 Author’s note: These are generic commands, consistent with the terminology of the time.
48 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 56.
49 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 70 [reported speech].
50 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 70 [reported speech].
51 Rutter (ed.), The Voyag
e of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 70 [reported speech].
52 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, pp. 70–71 [reported speech].
53 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
54 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71 [reported speech].
55 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
56 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
57 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
58 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71 [reported speech].
59 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
60 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
61 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
62 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
63 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 31 May 1789.
64 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, pp. 209–10.
65 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 210.
66 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
67 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
68 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 111.
69 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
70 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 111.
71 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
72 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 111.
73 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
74 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
75 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
76 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
77 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 71.
78 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 111.
79 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 72.
80 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 72.
81 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 72.
82 Kennedy, Captain Bligh: The Man and His Mutinies, p. 159.
83 Dening, Mr Bligh’s Bad Language, p. 104.
84 Dening, Mr Bligh’s Bad Language, p. 104.
Chapter 11
1 Byron, The Works of Lord Byron Complete in One Volume, p. 318.
2 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 326 [reported speech].
3 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 326 [reported speech].
4 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 325.
5 Oliver, Return to Tahiti, p. 54.
6 Oliver, Return to Tahiti, p. 54. Author’s note: This remarkable dialogue was recorded by William Bligh himself. Fascinated by all aspects of Fletcher Christian’s treachery and deception, Bligh was a ceaseless inquisitor about Christian and the Mutineers on his eventual return to Tahiti. This exchange was carefully noted, word for word in the form of a dialogue, in Bligh’s Log on 10 April 1792, his first full day back on this island. No doubt Bligh was already imagining this evidence forming part of the court martial of Fletcher Christian once the rascal was caught.
7 Oliver, Return to Tahiti, p. 54.
8 Oliver, Return to Tahiti, p. 54.
9 Oliver, Return to Tahiti, p. 54.
10 Oliver, Return to Tahiti, p. 54.
11 Oliver, Return to Tahiti, pp. 54–55.
12 Oliver, Return to Tahiti, p. 55.
13 Oliver, Return to Tahiti, p. 55.
14 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 327.
15 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 327.
16 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, pp. 285–86.
17 Author’s note: These Tahitian anecdotes are undated but occurred in Tahiti during the Mutineers’ stay there. The source of these anecdotes is a long article from 1794 in Walker’s Hibernian Magazine. The journalist does not say explicitly which of the sailors has been interviewed, but as the article criticises everybody except wise Mr Coleman, good Mr Coleman, Mr Coleman who forbore liquor and was beloved by all, it is my assumption that the key source is Mr Coleman himself. As one of the three marked, detained Loyalists, Coleman is there throughout, and free to give his observations without fear of self-incrimination.
18 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 328.
19 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 10 June 1789, p. 413.
20 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 9 June 1789, p. 412.
21 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 11 June 1789, p. 414.
22 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 11 June 1789, p. 414 [reported speech].
23 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 11 June 1789, p. 414.
24 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 11 June 1789, p. 414.
25 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 12 June 1789, p. 415.
26 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 73.
27 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 73.
28 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 73.
29 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 73.
30 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 73.
31 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 73.
32 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74.
33 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74.
34 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74.
35 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74
36 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74.
37 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74.
38 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74.
39 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74.
40 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74.
41 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74.
42 Kennedy, Captain Bligh: The Man and His Mutinies, p. 166.
43 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74.
44 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 74.
45 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 13 June 1789, p. 417 [reported speech].
46 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 13 June 1789, p. 417 [reported speech].
47 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 13 June 1789, p. 417 [reported speech].
48 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
49 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
50 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
51 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
52 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
53 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
54 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
55 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
56 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
57 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
58 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
59 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
60 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 138.
61 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
62 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
63 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
64 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 503.
65 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 60.
66 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 60.
67 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 61.
68 Bligh to Banks, Letter, 13 October 1789, p. 19.
69 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 76.
70 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 76.
71 Ru
tter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 76 [reported speech].
72 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 76.
73 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 76.
74 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 77.
75 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 77.
76 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 77.
77 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 77.
78 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 504.
79 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 504.
80 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 504.
81 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 504.
82 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 504.
83 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 417 [reported speech].
84 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 416.
85 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 416 [reported speech]. Author’s note: I have taken Coleman’s rather more literate account of his words, and put them the way I believe the far less educated Churchill would have said them.
86 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 59.
87 Author’s note: These were nautical terms of the time that any Captain might give upon the launching of a vessel. The ‘Dogwatch’ was the period from 4 pm to 8 pm, split into two-hour periods, the first dog watch and the last dog watch.
88 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 19 June 1789, p. 423.
89 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 77.
90 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 77.
91 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 77.
92 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, pp. 67–68.
93 Kennedy, Captain Bligh: The Man and His Mutinies, p. 97.
94 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
95 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
96 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
97 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
98 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
99 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
100 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
101 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
102 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
103 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
104 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79. Author’s note: This dialogue is taken directly from the accounts of Fryer and Bligh of their angry conversations, but I have added capitals and italics where I saw fit to give some impression of the sound, fury and sarcasm of these two ever quarrelling men. It is fascinating that both kept such careful accounts of each other’s quips and insults, both so infuriated they felt they must be preserved for history, or rather for a future trial that did not eventuate. Bligh had a gift for memorable invective and from the Bounty to the Rum Rebellion we are again and again treated to the vivid recall of the many men lashed by his tongue and temper.
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