A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty

A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty
And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat

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A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty by William Bligh

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A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty
And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat

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where they need not labour, and where the allurements of dissipation are beyond any thing that can be conceived. The utmost, however, that any commander could have supposed to have happened is, that some of the people would have been tempted to desert. But if it should be asserted, that a commander is to guard against an act of mutiny and piracy in his own ship, more than by the common rules of service, it is as much as to say that he must sleep locked up, and when awake, be girded with pistols.

[Sidenote: 1789. APRIL.]

Desertions have happened, more or less, from many of the ships that have been at the Society Islands; but it ever has been in the commanders power to make the chiefs return their people: the knowledge, therefore, that it was unsafe to desert; perhaps, first led mine to consider with what ease so small a ship might be surprized, and that so favourable an opportunity would never offer to them again.

The secrecy of this mutiny is beyond all conception. Thirteen of the party,

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I just finished this book last night, it was much better than I was expecting. I was on the edge of my seat through much of it. Filled with action, adventure, and courage, I was amazed at the journey and deprivations they endured. The discipline they held to especially on the part of the captain was amazing. A great story I would recommend to anyone.
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