Mutiny on the Bounty
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43 Edwards and Hamilton, Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Pandora’, p. 34.
44 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 181.
45 Edwards and Hamilton, Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Pandora’, p. 119.
46 Hamilton, Voyage Round the World in His Majesty’s Frigate Pandora, W. Phorson, London, 1793. p xx.
47 Hamilton, Voyage Round the World in His Majesty’s Frigate Pandora, p xx.
48 Hamilton, Voyage Round the World in His Majesty’s Frigate Pandora, p xx.
49 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 187.
50 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 187.
51 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 187 [reported speech].
52 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 187.
53 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 188.
54 Morrison, After the Bounty, p. 118.
55 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 189.
56 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 189.
57 Barrow, John, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 135.
58 Edwards and Hamilton, Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Pandora’, p. 145.
59 Pasley to Flinders, 3 June 1791, in The Flinders Papers: Letters and documents about the Explorer Matthew Flinders (1774–1814), National Maritime Museum, p. 1.
60 Letter, 16 July 1792, in Tagart, Memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood, R. N., Effingham Wilson, London, 1832, p. 71.
61 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 196 [reported speech].
62 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 196.
63 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, pp. 196–97 [reported speech].
64 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 197.
65 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 197.
66 Papers of Edward Edwards as Captain of HMS Pandora, 1790–1792, Admiralty Library Manuscript Collection: MSS 180.
67 Alexander, The Bounty, p. 36.
68 Alexander, The Bounty, p. 36 [reported speech].
69 Tagart, Memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood, R. N., pp. 23–24.
70 Tagart, Memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood, R. N., p. 37.
71 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 246 [reported speech].
72 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, Whittaker and Co., London, 1851, p. 53.
73 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 235.
74 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 246.
75 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 232.
76 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 54.
77 Alexander, The Bounty, p. 35.
78 Tagart, Memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N., p. 24.
79 Tagart, Memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N., p. 58.
Chapter 16
1 Nessy Heywood to Peter Heywood, Letter, 31 July 1792, in Heywood, Innocent on the Bounty, p. 78.
2 Tagart, Memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N., p. 142.
3 Moore, Nessy Heywood, Brown and Sons, Douglas, 1913, p. 14.
4 Byron, The Works of Lord Byron Complete in One Volume, p. 319.
5 Nessy Heywood to Peter Heywood, Letter, 29 June 1792, in Tagart, Memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N., pp. 58–59.
6 Peter Heywood to Nessy Heywood, Letter, 4 August 1792, in Heywood, Innocent on the Bounty, p. 82.
7 Nessy Heywood to Peter Heywood, Letter, 31 August 1792, in Heywood, Innocent on the Bounty, p. 82.
8 Peter Heywood to Nessy Heywood, Letter, 6 September 1792, in Heywood, Innocent on the Bounty, 82.
9 Pasley to Nessy Heywood, Letter, 8 June 1792, in Mary Heywood – letter-book, SLNSW, MLMSS 5719 (Safe 1/127), Item 10, p. 85.
10 Pasley to Nessy Heywood, Letter, 15 July 1792, in Mary Heywood – letter-book, p. 144.
11 Papers of Edward Edwards as Captain of HMS Pandora, 1790–1792, Admiralty Library Manuscript Collection: MSS 180 (no page numbers).
12 Papers of Edward Edwards as Captain of HMS Pandora, 1790–1792, Admiralty Library Manuscript Collection: MSS 180 (no page numbers).
13 Alexander, The Bounty, p. 309.
14 Alexander, The Bounty, p. 309.
15 Bligh, Log, 2 May 1792, quoted in Oliver, Return to Tahiti, p. 139.
16 Bligh, Log, 2 May 1792, quoted in Oliver, Return to Tahiti, pp. 139–40.
17 Bligh, Log, 2 May 1792, quoted in Oliver, Return to Tahiti, p. 140.
18 Lee, Captain Bligh’s Second Voyage to the South Sea, Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1920, p. 87.
19 Morrison, Memorandum and Particulars Respecting the Bounty and Her Crew, in William Bligh – Papers relating to HMS Bounty, 1787–1794, undated, State Library of NSW, Safe 1/33, p. 33.
20 McKinney, Bligh!: The Whole Story of the Mutiny Aboard H.M.S. Bounty, TouchWood Editions, Canada, 1999, p. 173.
21 McKinney, Bligh!, p. 142.
22 Barney [compiled by], Minutes of the Proceedings of the Court-Martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792. on ten persons charged with mutiny on board His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty, J. Deighton, London, 1794, p. 2.
23 Falconer, Falconer’s Marine Dictionary, T. Cadell, London, 1815, p. 109.
24 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 73.
25 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 74.
26 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 81.
27 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 81.
28 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 87.
29 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 90.
30 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 90.
31 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 92.
32 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 94.
33 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, pp. 103–4.
34 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 104.
35 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 107.
36 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 109.
37 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 111.
38 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 114.
39 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 114.
40 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 121.
41 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 121.
42 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, pp. 121–22.
43 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 122.
44 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 122.
45 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 122.
46 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 123.
47 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 123.
48 Tagart, Memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N., p. 140.
49 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 126.
50 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 137 [reported speech].
51 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 139.
52 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, pp. 140–41.
53 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, pp. 145–46.
54 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 148.
55 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 149.
56 Ru
tter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 150.
57 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 150.
58 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 151.
59 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 153.
60 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 156.
61 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 156.
62 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 158.
63 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 158.
64 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 166.
65 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 166.
66 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, pp. 177–78.
67 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 198 [reported speech].
68 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 198 [reported speech].
69 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 198 [reported speech].
70 Rutter (ed.), The Court-Martial of the ‘Bounty’ Mutineers, p. 198 [reported speech].
71 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 191.
72 Tagart, Memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N., p. 123 [reported speech].
73 Lines from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Requiem.
74 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 191.
75 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 257.
76 Howell to Phillips, Letter, 25 November 1792, Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, SLNSW, Series 48.01, p. 1.
77 Preston, Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia, p. xx.
78 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 272.
79 Heywood, ‘Spoken by Mr Peter Heywood to Captain Montagu after he had read him his Majesty’s unconditional Pardon Octr 27th 1792.’ in Heywood, Letter-book, p. 308.
80 Graham to Nessy Heywood, Letter, 27 October 1792, in Heywood, Letter-book, p. 283.
81 Graham to Nessy Heywood, Letter, 27 October 1792, in Heywood, Letter-book, p. 284.
82 Heywood, Innocent on the Bounty, p. 148.
83 McArthur, John, A treatise of the principles and practice of naval courts-martial, Whieldon and Butterworth, London, 1792, p. 161.
84 Alexander, The Bounty, p. 300.
85 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 128.
Chapter 17
1 Lee, Captain Bligh’s Second Voyage to the South Sea, p. 43.
2 Heywood, Innocent on the Bounty, pp. 203–4.
3 Francis Bond to Thomas Bond, Letter, undated, printed in Mackaness, George, Fresh Light on Bligh, p. 69.
4 Christian, Fragile Paradise, p. 189.
5 Bligh to Banks, Letter, 30 October 1793, SLNSW, Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Series 50.32, p. 2.
6 Salmond, Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas, Penguin, New Zealand, 2011, p. 433 [reported speech].
7 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 247.
8 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 247.
9 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 247 [reported speech].
10 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 247.
11 Author’s note: The words Mills is recorded as saying are that ‘It is only Mainmast calling her children to dinner’, but I have interpreted this as an archaic joke, Mills jesting that her yells of labour are her ‘calling’ her child.
12 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 247.
13 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 56.
14 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 56.
15 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 248.
16 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 232.
17 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 58.
18 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 58.
19 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 58.
20 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 41.
21 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 58.
22 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 58.
23 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 58.
24 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 248.
25 Mutiny on the Bounty 1789–1989 [Magazine], Manorial Research PLC, London, 1989, p. 130.
26 Mutiny on the Bounty 1789–1989, p. 130.
27 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 248.
28 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 249.
29 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 249.
30 Author’s note: Although which of the two men was the gunman is not revealed by the existing sources, I have assumed here that his identity is Matt Quintal, given Quintal’s relentless love of violence and cold-blooded murder. A man unbothered by conscience, Matt Quintal is one of the most brutal men to board the Bounty, which, given his competition, is saying something.
31 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, pp. 249–50.
32 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and the Islanders in 1850, p. 61.
33 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 250.
34 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 135.
35 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 93.
36 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 77.
37 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 135.
38 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 135.
39 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 149.
40 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 149.
41 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 10.
42 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 250.
43 Morrison, Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, p. 369.
44 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 241.
45 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 250.
46 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 250.
47 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 250.
48 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 155.
49 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 168.
50 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 181.
51 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, pp. 173–74.
52 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 176.
53 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 177.
54 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 189.
55 British Critic, December 1794, F and C Rivington, London, 1794.
56 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 250.
57 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 251.
58 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 251.
Chapter 18
1 Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Thomas Kelly, London, 1822, p. 85.
2 Thackeray, The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century, Harper and Brothers, London, 1859, p. 24.
3 Hagberg and Jost, A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 2009, p. 517.
4 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 251 [tense changed].
5 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 251.
6 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 251.
7 The United Service Journal, p. 191.
8 Kennedy, Captain Bligh: The Man and His Mutinies, p. 115.
9 Christian, Fragile Paradise, p. 192.
10 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 62.
11 The Bible, King James Version, Book of Luke, Chapter 5, Verse 35.
12 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 52.
13 Brodie, Pitcairn’s Island and The Islanders in 1850, p. 64.
14 Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, p. 214.
15 Mutiny on the Bounty 1789–1989, p. 125.
16 Nicolson and Davies, The Pitcairners, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1964, p 54.
17 Preston, Paradise in Chains, p. 274.
18 Kirk, Pitcairn Island: The Bounty Mutineers and their Descendants, McFarland & Co., Jefferson NC, 2008, p. 51.
19 Macklin, Dark Paradise, Hachette, Sydney, 2013, p. 114.
20 Author’s note: These are generic commands, consistent with the terminology of the time.
21 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 219.
22 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 219.
23 The United Service Journal, p. 192.
24 The United Service Journal, p. 192 [reported speech].
25 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty, p. 220.
26 The United Service Journal, p 193.
27 The United Service Journal, p 195.
28 The United Service Journal, p 194.
29 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 240.
30 Bligh and Christian, The Bounty Mutiny, p. 240.
31 The United Service Journal, p. 196.
32 Barrow, The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty, p. 319.
33 Pipon, Interesting account of the mutineers of H.M.S. Bounty – original account of the finding the home of the Mutineers – on Pitcairn Island – 1814, SLNSW, p. 13.
34 The United Service Journal, p. 197.
35 Pipon, Interesting account of the mutineers of H.M.S. Bounty, pp. 4–5.
Epilogue
1 Milton, Paradise Lost, Dent, London, 1920, p. 104.
2 Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, 2012, p. 49.
3 Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, pp. 138–42.
4 Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, pp. 138–42.
5 Dening, Mr. Bligh’s Bad Language, p. 60.
6 Chambers, The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection 1768 to 1820, Imperial College Press, London, 2000, p. 261.
7 Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, p. 434.
8 Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, p. 468 [reported speech].
9 Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, p. 507.
10 Heywood, Innocent on the Bounty, p. 204.
11 Heywood, Innocent on the Bounty, p. 204.
12 Heywood, Innocent on the Bounty, p. 204.