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Mutiny on the Bounty

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by Peter Fitzsimons


  Periodicals/Journals

  British Critic, December 1794, F and C Rivington, London, 1794

  Critical Review, March 1795

  The Derby Mercury, 18 March 1790

  The Edinburgh Magazine, ‘Narrative of the Adventures of the Mutineers aboard his Majesty’s Ship Bounty’, June 1792

  The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Volume 11, 1964

  The London Chronicle

  Mutiny on the Bounty 1789–1989 [Magazine], Manorial Research PLC, London, 1989

  The Quarterly Review, February to May 1810, John Murray, London, 1810

  The Scots Magazine, March 1790

  Sydney Gazette

  Twain, Mark, ‘The Great Revolution In Pitcairn’, The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XLIII, March 1879

  United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, London, H. Colburn, 1829, Pt II

  Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, Part Two, R. Gibson, Dublin, 1794

  Speech

  Beaglehole, John, Captain Cook and Captain Bligh, The Dr W.E. Collins Lecture delivered at the University on 3 August 1967, The Victoria University of Wellington, 1967

  INDEX

  Adams, John see Smith, Alec

  Adventure Bay 64–5, 72

  albatrosses 48–9, 56–7

  Annamooka 153–61, 236–7, 426

  Appendix (account of mutiny) 511–14

  Bligh’s response to 516–19

  Arms Chest 13, 178–9, 185, 254

  Arreoys 111–12, 115

  Articles of War 24, 45, 46, 75, 135, 315, 457, 485, 556

  Assistant 493

  Balfour, Colonel James 62

  Banks, Sir Joseph 5–7, 90, 111, 223, 233, 400, 481, 544, 553

  Bligh, and 9, 12–13, 20, 22, 26–8, 39, 45, 367–8, 413, 413–14, 540

  bread-fruit, plan for 6–9

  Cook, voyage with xxv–xxviii

  death 544

  promotion, seeking xli, 9, 12, 20–1

  Barkay, Anthony 337

  Barney, Stephen 480

  Barrington, Admiral Samuel 408–9

  Barrow, Sir John 548, 552, 559–60

  Batavia 311, 322, 324, 337, 357, 363, 366–70

  Bedford, Charles 561

  Beechey, Captain Frederick 548–9

  Bertie, Captain Albemarle 457

  Bethia 8

  Bligh, Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ (nee Betham) 9, 14, 25, 61, 88, 222, 235, 322–4, 400–1, 516, 541, 543

  Bligh, Elizabeth (daughter) 61, 324

  Bligh, Frances 401

  Bligh, Harriet 61, 324

  Bligh, Jane 401

  Bligh, Lieutenant William xvii, 41, 475–6, 489

  Appendix, portrayal in 511–14

  Appendix, response to 516–19

  Banks, and 9, 12–13, 20, 22, 26–8, 39, 45, 367–8, 413, 540

  Batavia, in 363, 366–9, 407–10

  book 404

  Bounty, alterations to 13–14

  captain, as 55, 234, 381, 410, 524

  character xxxi, xli, 12, 13, 16, 24, 56, 144, 242, 282, 303, 344, 369, 401, 433, 489–91, 539–40, 542

  Christian, and 16, 36, 62, 77, 125–7, 152–3, 157, 165–8, 202–3, 222, 402, 556

  coconut incident 162–5, 352, 455, 543

  commission 223, 354

  Cook, voyage with xxix–xxxviii, xli, 9, 64, 103, 153, 154

  court martials 407–10, 539–40

  death 543

  defrauding Admiralty accusation of 308–9, 338, 346–9, 356–7

  Dutch sailors, on 372–3, 382

  England, journey back to 372–3, 380, 391–3

  fame 399–400, 408, 413, 492–3, 512, 516

  French Revolutionary War 524, 539–40

  Fryer, conflict with 73–6, 143–5, 220, 233, 273–4, 276, 280–2, 290–4, 302–4, 308–9, 311–13, 321, 339–40, 344, 356–7, 370, 408

  Governor of New South Wales 540–2

  Huggan, and 43–4, 71–3, 76–82

  Launch, journey in the 221–2, 230–4, 254–6, 258–65, 277–83, 289–94, 297–301

  Log book 212–13, 400

  mutiny see mutiny

  navigation instruments 210, 213, 223–4, 252, 290

  navigational skill xxix, 9, 13, 213, 224, 252, 261, 290–1, 399, 491, 552–3

  Nelson, death of 319

  Purcell, conflict with 64–8, 121–2, 279–80, 339–40, 344, 347, 357, 408–10

  Restoration Island 269–71, 273–6

  Rum Rebellion 541

  signing of expense books 73–6, 308–9, 455

  ‘son of Toote’ 91–3, 285–6, 361–2

  Sourabaya 337–49

  story-teller, as 542–3

  Sunday Island 278–82

  Tahiti 91–149, 413, 452

  Tahitian women 88

  temper 13, 26, 42–3, 52, 55, 68, 73, 125–6, 132, 152, 157–60, 164–7, 193, 271, 274, 279–81, 292–3, 341, 351, 433, 455, 481, 489, 543

  Timor, arrival in 301–4

  Tofoa 230–46

  Vice-Admiral of the Blue 542

  wages 21

  Bligh, Mary 61, 324

  Bloody Bay 269, 272, 309–10, 322

  Blossom 548–9

  Bond, Lieutenant Francis 490–1, 551

  Botany Bay 5, 6–7, 247

  Bounty 2, 4, 5, 21, 33

  cockroaches 138

  crew accommodation 9, 13–14, 35

  crew, selection of 17–20, 27, 40–1

  Cutter see Cutter

  deaths 71–3, 76–7, 123

  departure from England 23, 27–32

  destruction of 386–7, 549

  entertainment on board 20, 101–2

  Jolly Boat see Jolly Boat

  Launch see Launch

  Marines 21

  masts 14

  rations 35, 38, 42–5, 50, 55–6, 166

  refit 8–9, 10, 12, 20

  route to Tahiti 60

  sails, damage to 131–2

  storm damage 57, 60

  supplies see supplies

  thefts from 94, 102–3, 113, 141

  bread-fruit xxvii–xxviii, 62, 86, 96, 100, 154, 286, 370, 543

  Bligh’s second voyage 413, 452, 490–1

  destruction of 226

  loading the Bounty 145–6

  negotiating for 105–6, 110

  pitch, making 403–4

  plantations 106, 109–10, 117, 118, 122, 124

  West Indies, plan to transport to, 4, 6–9, 63

  Britannia 16, 17

  Brown, John 364, 388, 390, 395, 417–18, 420–2

  Brown, William ‘Billy’ xxi, 27, 69–70, 78–9, 146, 192

  death 498

  Pitcairn 365, 384, 405, 441, 498

  Tahiti 100, 110, 413

  Brunswick 485, 487

  Bryant, Mary 436

  Bryant, William 436

  Burkett, Mary 438

  Burkett, Thomas xx

  court martial 458, 459, 466, 476

  execution 485–7

  mutiny 179–81, 189–90, 210, 213

  Tahiti, remaining on 359, 395–8, 416, 419

  Tubuai, injury on 332, 333, 335

  Burney, Fanny 400

  Burney, Lieutenant James 400

  Byrn, Michael xx, 20, 31–2, 204, 226, 329, 350, 355, 358, 453, 551

  Appendix 511

  court martial 458, 459, 477

  Pandora, on 417–18, 430

  The Calamities of Captain Bligh 400

  Calcutta 524

  Campbell, Duncan 9, 30, 39, 45

  Cape of Good Hope 7, 25, 58–60, 149, 370, 380, 413

  Cape Horn 7, 14, 23–5, 28, 30, 38, 48–50, 60

  attempt to round 53–9

  Cape Town 60, 61–3

  Carteret, Captain Philip 377, 378, 382–3

  Chatham 438

  cheeses, theft of 30, 42–3, 44, 308

  Christian, Charles 2–4, 203

  Christian, Edward 2, 402, 488–90, 494, 552, 556, 561

  Appendix 511–14, 516–18

  Christian
, Fletcher ‘Titriano’ xviii, 2, 14, 16–17, 31, 355, 533

  Articles, drawing up 314

  Bligh, and 16, 36, 62, 77, 125–7, 152–3, 157, 165–8, 202–3, 222, 402, 556

  bread-fruit plantation 109–10, 124

  captain, as 229, 327–30, 358, 371–2, 383, 388, 492

  cave on Pitcairn 453–4

  character 2, 4, 16, 62, 334, 412, 412–13

  coconut incident 163–5, 352, 455

  conscience and nightmares 234–5, 256, 351, 376, 453–4, 456, 489

  death 495–6, 497, 536, 557–8, 559

  desert, plans to 168–74

  fate, theories surrounding 555–62

  first visit to Tahiti 91–2, 95–6, 103–4, 115–16, 124–6, 129–30

  Heywood, and 35–6, 58, 110, 126, 169, 216, 250, 306, 329, 351–2, 488–9

  Loyalists, treatment of 253–4

  marriage 287–8

  mental health 556–7

  mutiny see mutiny

  Pitcairn see Pitcairn Island

  promotion 38, 45–6, 152

  reputation, rehabilitation of 512–13, 524–5

  return to Tahiti 284–8, 295–7, 350–1

  search for a home 370–2, 375–8, 382–8

  second departure from Tahiti 305–8

  setting the crew adrift 200–5, 208, 215, 219–28

  Stewart, and 168, 170, 171, 173, 305, 351–2

  taking control of Bounty 178–90, 194–5

  tattoo 115–16

  Tenerife 37

  third departure from Tahiti 350–3

  Tinnarow, conflict with 324–6, 330, 331–6

  Tonga 154–8

  Tubuai 265–9, 272, 276–7, 306, 309–10, 314–18, 322, 324–30

  women 2, 95, 517

  Christian, Isabella xxviii, 95, 109–11, 115, 124, 147, 149, 174, 276, 285, 306–8, 550

  death of Christian 497–8, 502

  marriage to Christian 287–8, 376

  Pitcairn 365, 394, 405, 407, 412, 441, 453–4, 495, 507, 515, 519, 534, 550

  Christian, Mary 502

  Christian, Thursday October 407, 453, 456, 498, 533–4, 535, 537, 550

  death 554

  Churchill, Charles xix–xx, 41, 55, 99, 124, 151, 220, 250, 308, 517

  Articles, drawing up 314

  chief, as 378–9, 389–90, 394–8

  coconut incident 162

  death 397

  desertion 127–30, 134–7, 191

  mutiny 177, 179, 181–4, 187, 191–3, 195, 197–8, 204, 212–15, 217, 224–5

  Purcell’s tool chest 212, 214–15

  Tahiti, remaining on 358, 359, 373

  Tahiti, return to 283–4, 306–7

  Tubuai, trouble on 310–11, 329–30

  Clerke, Captain xxxix, xli

  coconuts 88, 101, 118, 143, 147, 148, 154, 232

  theft of 162–5, 169, 352, 455, 543

  Cole, William xvii, 13, 31, 40, 78, 114, 168–9, 170, 280, 282, 283

  court martial of mutineers 462–4, 472

  Launch, in 255, 263, 290

  mutiny 186–7, 191–2, 194, 201–5, 213, 217, 219, 227

  Sourabaya 337, 342–4, 346

  Timor 297

  Tofoa 233–4, 247

  Coleman, Joseph xx, 18, 25, 85, 178–9, 326

  Appendix 511, 517

  boat-building 381, 403

  court martial 453, 459, 477

  Loyalist 219, 224–5, 252–4, 329, 355, 358, 414

  mutiny 194, 219, 224, 225

  Pandora, on 414, 429

  Tahiti 286, 295–6, 305, 350, 352, 358, 381

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 559

  Const, Mr 454, 461, 470–1

  Cook, Captain James 5, 64, 103, 129

  death xxxviii, xxxix, 86, 238, 242, 361–2, 364

  first voyage (1768–1771) xxxix, 23

  Hawaii xxix–xxxviii, 237

  portrait 93–4, 119

  second voyage (1772–1775) xl Tahiti xxiv–xxviii, 9, 90–1, 98

  third voyage (1776–1780) xl, 9, 400

  Toote xxiv, xxviii, 86, 90, 98, 285–6, 295–6, 375

  Corner, Lieutenant Robert 419–21, 429

  Coupang 297–304, 308–9, 311, 321, 330, 436, 482

  court martial 539–40

  Batavia 407–10, 517

  mutineers 451, 454, 457–77

  Couvert, Captain Peter 372

  Cox, Captain John 361–2, 364, 388, 418

  Curtis, Captain Sir Roger 457, 485

  Curwen, Isabella 2, 95, 560

  Cutter 14, 34, 95, 101, 113–14, 155, 202–4, 265, 269, 558

  grapnel, theft of 156–61

  racing Tahitian canoes 103–4

  theft of 127–8

  Darby, Madge 556

  Director 524, 539

  discipline 78, 81, 113, 120, 137, 152

  Launch, aboard 234, 252, 257

  mutineers, amongst 371–2

  Discovery xxix, xxxi, xxxii–xxxiv

  dripstones 37, 49, 59, 161

  Dublin 62

  Duke 457, 463, 476

  Dutch East Indies 149, 247

  East India Company 2, 3

  Edgar, Thomas xxxiii

  Edwards, Captain Edward 410, 413–20, 423–4, 426–7, 436–7

  Heywood, on 451–2, 473–4

  Morrison, conflict with 434–5

  naval career 551

  Pandora, wreck of 427–32, 433

  search for mutineers 425–7

  Timor, journey to 434–5

  Eefow 236–7, 241, 242

  Ellison, Thomas ‘Monkey’ xx, 39, 151

  court martial 458, 459, 463–4, 466, 475, 476

  execution 485–7

  mutiny 187–8, 200, 210, 323, 453

  Pandora, on 420, 422

  Tahiti 114, 117, 288, 359, 419

  Elphinstone, William xviii, 72, 148, 154–5, 208, 282

  Launch, in 255, 278

  Sourabaya 337, 338–9

  Endeavour xxiv, xxvii, xxviii, 23

  Endeavour Strait 149, 164, 165, 172, 248, 261, 436

  Faahotu 365, 439

  Feejee Islands 252, 254–6, 258

  Flinders, Matthew 432–3, 493, 552–3

  floggings 40, 45, 46–7, 113–14, 121, 127, 135–7, 142, 153, 518

  Folger, Captain Mayhew 530–2, 557

  Folly 560, 562

  Frazier, Lieutenant John 539–40

  Friendly Islands 225, 375, 426

  Fryer, Master John xvii, 4, 13, 18, 19, 27, 30, 36, 41, 58, 67, 148, 171, 173, 433, 550

  Appendix 511

  Batavia, in 370

  Bligh defrauding Admiralty 308–9, 321, 338, 346–9, 356–7

  coconut incident 162

  conflict with Bligh 73–6, 143–5, 220, 233, 273–4, 276, 280–2, 290–4, 302–4, 308–9, 311–13, 321, 339–40, 344, 356–7, 370, 408, 550

  court martial of Bligh 408–9

  court martial of mutineers 459–62, 472

  Edward Christian, talking to 490, 511

  hogs 143–5

  Launch, in 220–1, 227, 231, 247, 248, 255–6, 262–4, 290–4

  mutiny 178, 181, 182–5, 188–90, 194–9, 209–10, 214

  punishment of Quintal 46–7

  rations, problem of 44, 55–6

  Restoration Island 269–70, 273–6

  signing of expense books 73–6, 308–9, 455

  Sourabaya 339–40, 343, 344, 346–9

  Sunday Island 278–82

  Tahiti 85, 86, 102–3, 114, 124–5, 127, 131–2, 143–4

  Timor, arrival in 302–5

  Tofoa 233, 236–8, 240–1, 243–7

  Tonga 155–9

  Gatty, Reverend Alfred 542–3

  George, King 5–6, 105, 112–13, 147, 188, 208, 295–6, 317, 400, 477, 482, 492

  Gorgon 446

  Graham, Aaron 454, 460, 465, 480, 482–4

  Great Barrier Reef 427–32, 433

  Green, Charles xxvi, xxvii

  Greetham, Moses 458, 460, 474

 
Grimwood, John 430

  Hall, Thomas xx, 54, 55, 208, 367

  Hallett, John xviii, 19, 164, 166, 275, 282, 323

  court martial of Bligh 409

  court martial of mutineers 469–70

  mutiny 177–9, 183, 185, 190, 200, 208, 471, 472–3

  Sourabaya 337, 338–9, 342–5

  trial of mutineers 450

  Hamond, Sir Andrew Snape 457

  Hawaii xxix–xxxviii, xli, 237

  Hayward, Thomas xviii, 19, 65, 99, 164, 166, 171, 228, 282, 312

  court martial of mutineers 466–9

  Cutter, theft of 127–8

  death 550

  mutiny 177–80, 183, 185, 190, 200–1, 203, 208, 219, 471, 472

  naval career 550

  punishment of 136–7, 142, 145

  Sourabaya 337, 338, 340–2

  Tahiti, return to 415–22

  wreck of Pandora 434

  Hector 446, 449, 457, 462, 477, 482

  Heiva 119–20, 140

  Hetee-Hetee 98, 118–19, 120, 133–4, 141, 308, 332, 416–17

  Heywood, Nessy 44, 216, 446–7, 449–51, 454, 458, 469, 479–80, 482, 484–5, 544

  Heywood, Peter xviii, 17, 32, 34–6, 44, 58, 164, 166, 229, 282, 355, 413, 434

  account of mutiny 439, 451, 489–90, 511, 556

  Bligh on 401

  Christian, and 35–6, 58, 110, 126, 169–71, 306, 329, 351–2, 488–9, 559–60

  court martial 458, 459, 461–2, 464–5, 467–74, 476–80

  Loyalist, as 217, 219, 250, 305, 329, 350, 414–15, 439

  ‘mast-heading’ 51–2

  mutiny 185, 207, 211, 216–17, 219, 323, 551

  naval career 544–7

  Pandora, on 414–16, 423, 425, 429, 431, 451, 473–4

  pardon 482–4

  support for 432–3, 446–7, 449–52, 454, 457, 477–9

  Tahiti 110, 114–15, 126, 129–30, 350, 361, 374, 389, 390, 452, 453

  Hillbrant, Henry xx, 42

  boat-building 374, 381, 403

  death on Pandora 432

  mutiny 192, 209, 453

  Tahiti, remaining on 359, 374, 381, 419

  Hodges, Joseph 430–1

  Hood, Vice-Admiral Lord Samuel 27, 30, 457, 461, 463, 476–7, 486, 487

  Howell, Reverend William 455–6, 481

  Huggan, Dr Thomas xviii, 18, 27, 36, 54, 123

  Bligh, and 43–4, 76–82

  death 123

  Valentine, death of 71–3, 76–7

  hyperhydrosis 557

  Iddeah 96–9, 119–20, 122, 124–5, 130, 140–1, 147–8

  Isle of Wight 23, 26, 391, 391

  Jamaica 141, 143, 149, 164

  Java 262, 311

  Jolly Boat xxx, 14, 177, 184–5, 192, 196, 200–1, 269, 384–6, 515, 558

  kava xxv, 94, 97, 112, 360

  Kendall chronometer 9, 34, 531

  King, Governor Philip Gidley 540

  King, 2nd Lieutenant James xxxiii, xxxvii, xxxix

 

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