105 Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, p. 161.
106 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
107 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
108 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 79.
109 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 78.
110 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 78.
111 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 78.
112 Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, p. 161.
Chapter 12
1 Hobbes, Leviathan, Collier, New York, 1972, p. 100.
2 Alexander, The Bounty, p. 14.
3 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 62 [reported speech].
4 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 64 [reported speech].
5 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 64.
6 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 64 [reported speech].
7 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 66.
8 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 67.
9 Bligh, Extract from the logbook HMS Bounty, 22 July 1789, p. 437.
10 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 90.
11 Kennedy, Captain Bligh: The Man and His Mutinies, p. 171.
12 Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, p. 163.
13 Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, p. 162.
14 Bligh to Elizabeth Bligh, Letter, 19 August 1789, SLNSW, p. 1.
15 Bligh to Elizabeth Bligh, Letter, 19 August 1789, p. 2.
16 Bligh to Elizabeth Bligh, Letter, 19 August 1789, p. 4.
17 Bligh to Elizabeth Bligh, Letter, 19 August 1789, p. 4.
18 Bligh to Elizabeth Bligh, Letter, 19 August 1789, p. 4.
19 Bligh to Elizabeth Bligh, Letter, 19 August 1789, p. 5.
20 Bligh to Elizabeth Bligh, Letter, 19 August 1789, p. 5.
21 Bligh to Elizabeth Bligh, Letter, 19 August 1789, p. 4.
22 Bligh to Elizabeth Bligh, Letter, 19 August 1789, p. 5.
23 Bligh to Elizabeth Bligh, Letter, 19 August 1789, p. 5.
24 Bligh to Elizabeth Bligh, Letter, 19 August 1789, p. 5.
25 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 68.
26 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 69 [reported speech].
27 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 72.
28 John Adams’s story in Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 244.
29 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 72 [reported speech].
30 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 146.
31 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 146.
32 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 73 [reported speech].
33 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 74.
34 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 74.
35 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 75.
36 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 75.
37 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 89.
38 Morrison, After the Bounty, Potomac Books, Dulles, 2010, p. 57.
39 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 76.
40 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 77.
41 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 78 [reported speech].
Chapter 13
1 Shakespeare Julius Caesar, H. Altemus, Philadelphia, 1890, p. 114.
2 Bligh, ‘Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty’s Ship Bounty Lieut. Wm Bligh Commander from Otaheite towards Jamaica, signed ‘Wm Bligh’, 5 Apr. 1789 – 13 Mar. 1790’, 17 September 1789, SLNSW, Safe 1/47 (Microfilm CY 274), p. 304.
3 Bligh, ‘Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty’s Ship Bounty’ 17 September 1789, p. 304 [reported speech].
4 Bligh, ‘Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty’s Ship Bounty’, 17 September 1789, p. 304 [reported speech].
5 Bligh, ‘Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty’s Ship Bounty’, 17 September 1789, p. 305 [reported speech].
6 Bligh, ‘Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty’s Ship Bounty’, 17 September 1789, p. 308 [reported speech].
7 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 64.
8 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 64.
9 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 64.
10 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 81.
11 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 64.
12 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 64.
13 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 64.
14 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 64.
15 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, pp. 64–65.
16 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 65.
17 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 65.
18 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 65.
19 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 81 [reported speech].
20 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 81.
21 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 65.
22 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 65.
23 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 65.
24 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 65.
25 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 65.
26 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 65.
27 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 65.
28 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 81.
29 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 81.
30 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 81.
31 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 81.
32 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 81.
33 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 66.
34 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, pp. 66–67.
35 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 67.
36 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 68 [reported speech].
37 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 68.
38 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 81.
39 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, pp. 68–69.
40 Rutter (ed.), The Voyage of the Bounty’s Launch, p. 82.
41 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 69.
42 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 69.
43 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 69.
44 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 69.
45 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 69
46 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 69.
47 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 99 [reported speech].
48 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 147.
49 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 148.
50 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 148.
51 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 147.
52 Author’s note: What was actually said in this exchange was not recorded. Heywood later recounted: ‘At that last interview with Christian, he also communicated to me, for the satisfaction of his relations, other circumstances connected with that unfortunate disaster, which, after their deaths, may or may not be laid before the public.’ (Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 85.)
53 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 81.
54 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 81.
56 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 86.
57 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 82.
58 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 162.
59 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, pp. 162–65.
60 Bowker and Bligh, Mutiny!! Aboard H.M. Armed Transport ‘Bounty’ in 1789, p. 356.
61 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, pp. 82–83.
62 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 83.
63 Author’s note: The curious thing is that, according to Owen Rutter, this Log (or, as I have called it, a journal) was not given to the Admiralty. There is no copy of it with the Admiralty or in the Public Records. Bligh’s Admiralty Log ends with him leaving Timor in the Resource, before Fryer and Purcell are arrested for mutiny and the brief trial of Hallett, Cole and Ledward. It is unknown what happened to these intended-to-be official volumes. Perhaps on returning to England, Bligh thought better of making mutinies seem like a habit on his watch. Similarly, all mention of this remarkable uprising was left out of Bligh’s published narrative of his travels. The logs vanished and only reappeared via Bligh’s grandchildren, who gave them to the Mitchell Library in 1902.
64 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 145.
65 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 101 [reported speech].
66 Cook, First Voyage Around the World: Captain Cook’s Journal, Salzwasser, Paderborn, 2013, p. 486.
67 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 97.
68 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 106 [reported speech].
Chapter 14
1 Coleridge, The complete poetical works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1912, p. 192.
2 The names of the Mutineers, and their initial consorts, as described by ‘Jenny’ in her 1819 account in the Sydney Gazette, 17 July 1819, p. 3.
3 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 97.
4 Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea, 1979, p. 256.
5 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 98.
6 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 98.
7 Bligh to Banks, Letter, 13 October 1789, pp. 1–2.
8 Bligh to Banks, Letter, 13 October 1789, p. 3.
9 Bligh to Banks, Letter, 13 October 1789, p. 3.
10 Bligh to Banks, Letter, 13 October 1789, p. 24.
11 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 68.
12 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 101.
13 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 106.
14 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 230.
15 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 113.
16 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 107.
17 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 221.
18 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 108 [reported speech].
19 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 109.
20 Morrison, After the Bounty, p. 74 [reported speech].
21 Kemp, Chanteys and Ballads, Sea-chanteys, Tramp-ballads and Other Ballads and Poems, Brentano’s Publishers, New York, 1920, pp. 32–33. Author’s note: It is not recorded what shanty the men sang on this day, but I have taken the liberty of using a common ‘capstan shanty’ that is thought to have been sung around this period in the Royal Navy.
22 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 361.
23 ‘Narrative of the Adventures of the Mutineers aboard his Majesty’s Ship Bounty’, The Edinburgh Magazine, June 1792, p. 438.
24 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 111.
25 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 126.
26 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 113.
27 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 37.
28 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 39.
29 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 39.
30 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 131.
31 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 245.
32 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 231.
33 John Adams’s Story in Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 245.
34 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 118.
35 Morrison, After the Bounty, p. 81.
36 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 119.
37 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 128.
38 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 130 [reported speech].
39 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 419 [reported speech].
40 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 419 [reported speech].
41 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 419.
42 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, pp. 419–20.
43 Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, p. 420.
44 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 130 [reported speech].
45 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 130.
46 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 130.
47 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 130.
48 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 131.
49 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 131 [reported speech].
50 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, pp. 132–33.
51 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 133 [reported speech].
52 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 133.
53 The Scots Magazine, March 1790, pp. 146–47.
54 The Scots Magazine, p. 146.
55 The Derby Mercury, 18 March 1790, p. 2.
56 Alexander, The Bounty, p. 165.
57 Alexander, The Bounty, pp. 164–65.
58 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 114.
59 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 114.
60 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 114.
61 Alexander, The Bounty, p. 167.
Chapter 15
1 The London Chronicle, 1 April 1791
2 Byron, The Works of Lord Byron Complete in One Volume, p. 311.
3 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 135.
4 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 135.
5 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 245.
6 Morrison, After the Bounty, p. 91.
7 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 144.
8 Galloway, The Bounty Mutiny Courts Martial: William Bligh, The Carpenter, Edward Edwards, The Mutineers, James Galloway Ebook, 2014, [no page numbers].
9 Galloway, The Bounty Mutiny Courts Martial, [no page numbers].
10 Galloway, The Bounty Mutiny Courts Martial, [no page numbers].
11 Galloway, The Bounty Mutiny Courts Martial, [no page numbers].
12 Galloway, The Bounty Mutiny Courts Martial, [no page numbers].
13 Bligh to Banks, Letter, 24 October 1790, SLNSW, Sir Joseph Banks Papers, Series 46.31, p. 1.
14 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 169.
15 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 169.
16 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 170.
17 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 169.
18 Christian, Fragile Paradise, p. 197.
19 Bligh to Banks, Letter, 17 July 1791, SLNSW, Sir Joseph Banks Papers, Series 50.05, p. 2.
20 Admiralty Orders for Captain Edward Edwards of HMS Pandora, 5 October 1790, in The United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, Part 1, Henry Colburn, London, 1843, p. 413.
21 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 215 [reported speech
].
22 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 215 [reported speech].
23 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 215 [reported speech].
24 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 215 [reported speech].
25 Heywood, Innocent on the Bounty, p. 39.
26 Rutter (ed.), Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, p. 116.
27 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 215 [reported speech].
28 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 215 [reported speech].
29 Edwards and Hamilton, Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Pandora’ Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the ‘Bounty’ in the South Seas, 1790–1791, Francis Edwards, London, 1915, p. 31 [reported speech].
30 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 173 [reported speech].
31 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 173 [reported speech].
32 Edwards and Hamilton, Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Pandora’, p. 31 [reported speech].
33 Edwards and Hamilton, Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Pandora’, p. 31 [reported speech].
34 Clune, Journey to Pitcairn, 1966, p. 55
35 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 174 [reported speech].
36 Edwards and Hamilton, Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Pandora’, p. 32 [reported speech].
37 Author’s note: These words are assumed as Morrison wrote: ‘we waked him and delivered ourselves up to Him, telling Him who we were’, Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 178 [reported speech].
38 Morrison, After the Bounty, p. 112.
39 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 87.
40 Morrison, After the Bounty, p. 112.
41 Edwards and Hamilton, Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Pandora’, p. 106 [reported speech].
42 Instructions from the Lords of the Admiralty to Capt Edwards, Papers of Edward Edwards as Captain of HMS Pandora, 1790–1792, Admiralty Library Manuscript Collection: MSS 180.
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