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Hough describes the scene: "Everyone was, more or less, making a noise, either cursing, jeering or just shouting for the reassurance it gave them to do so".

Captain Bligh has brought this on himself. Christian originally thought to cast Bligh adrift in Bounty' s small jolly boat , together with his clerk John Samuel and the loyalist midshipmen Hayward and Hallett.

This boat proved unseaworthy, so Christian ordered the launching of a larger ship's boat, with a capacity of around ten.

However, Christian and his allies had overestimated the extent of the mutiny—at least half on board were determined to leave with Bligh. Thus the ship's largest boat, a foot 7.

Among these was Fryer, who with Bligh's approval sought to stay on board—in the hope, he later claimed, that he would be able to retake the ship [94] —but Christian ordered him into the launch.

Soon, the vessel was badly overloaded, with more than 20 persons and others still vying for places. Christian ordered the two carpenter's mates, Norman and McIntosh, and the armourer, Joseph Coleman, to return to the ship, considering their presence essential if he were to navigate Bounty with a reduced crew.

Reluctantly they obeyed, beseeching Bligh to remember that they had remained with the ship against their will. Bligh assured them: "Never fear, lads, I'll do you justice if ever I reach England".

Samuel saved the captain's journal, commission papers and purser's documents, a compass and quadrant , but was forced to leave behind Bligh's maps and charts—15 years of navigational work.

At around the line holding the launch to the ship was cut; a little later, Bligh ordered a sail to be raised.

Their immediate destination was the nearby island of Tofua, clearly marked on the horizon by the plume of smoke rising from its volcano.

Bligh hoped to find water and food on Tofua, then proceed to the nearby island of Tongatapu to seek help from King Poulaho whom he knew from his visit with Cook in provisioning the boat for a voyage to the Dutch East Indies.

On 2 May, four days after landing, Bligh realised that an attack was imminent. He directed his men back to the sea, shortly before the Tofuans seized the launch's stern rope and attempted to drag it ashore.

Bligh coolly shepherded the last of his shore party and their supplies into the boat. In an attempt to free the rope from its captors, the quartermaster John Norton leapt into the water; he was immediately set upon and stoned to death.

The launch escaped to the open sea, where the shaken crew reconsidered their options. A visit to Tongatapu, or any island landfall, might incur similarly violent consequences; their best chance of salvation, Bligh reckoned, lay in sailing directly to the Dutch settlement of Kupang in Timor , using the rations presently on board.

The plan was unanimously agreed. From the outset, the weather was wet and stormy, with mountainous seas that constantly threatened to overwhelm the boat.

To keep up morale, he told stories of his prior experiences at sea, got the men singing, and occasionally said prayers.

A week later with the skies clearing, birds began to appear, signalling a proximity to land. Fryer told Cole to arrest their captain, but backed down after Bligh threatened to kill him if he interfered.

On 2 June, the launch cleared Cape York , the extreme northern point of the Australian continent. Bligh turned south-west, and steered through a maze of shoals, reefs, sandbanks, and small islands.

The route taken was not the Endeavour Strait, but a narrower southerly passage later known as the Prince of Wales Channel.

The next day, the coast of Timor was sighted: "It is not possible for me to describe the pleasure which the blessing of the sight of this land diffused among us", Bligh wrote.

In Kupang, Bligh reported the mutiny to the authorities, and wrote to his wife: "Know then, my own Dear Betsey, I have lost the Bounty After the departure of Bligh's launch, Christian divided the personal effects of the departed loyalists among the remaining crew and threw the breadfruit plants into the sea.

Bounty arrived at Tubuai on 28 May The reception from the native population was hostile; when a flotilla of war canoes headed for the ship, Christian used a four-pounder gun to repel the attackers.

At least a dozen warriors were killed, and the rest scattered. Undeterred, Christian and an armed party surveyed the island, and decided it would be suitable for their purposes.

The most likely source for these was Tahiti, to which Bounty returned on 6 June. To ensure the co-operation of the Tahiti chiefs, Christian concocted a story that he, Bligh, and Captain Cook were founding a new settlement at Aitutaki.

Cook's name ensured generous gifts of livestock and other goods and, on 16 June, the well-provisioned Bounty sailed back to Tubuai.

On board were nearly 30 Tahitian men and women, some of whom were there by deception. For the next two months, Christian and his forces struggled to establish themselves on Tubuai.

They began to construct a large moated enclosure—called "Fort George", after the British king—to provide a secure fortress against attack by land or sea.

He called a meeting to discuss future plans and offered a free vote. Eight remained loyal to Christian, the hard core of the active mutineers, but sixteen wished to return to Tahiti and take their chances there.

Christian accepted this decision; after depositing the majority at Tahiti, he would "run before the wind, and After what I have done I cannot remain at Tahiti".

When Bounty returned to Tahiti, on 22 September, the welcome was much less effusive than previously. The Tahitians had learned from the crew of a visiting British ship that the story of Cook and Bligh founding a settlement in Aitutaki was a fabrication, and that Cook had been long dead.

Of the 16 men who had voted to settle in Tahiti, he allowed 15 ashore; Joseph Coleman was detained on the ship, as Christian required his skills as an armourer.

That evening, Christian inveigled aboard Bounty a party of Tahitians, mainly women, for a social gathering. With the festivities under way, he cut the anchor rope and Bounty sailed away with its captive guests.

The 16 sailors on Tahiti began to organise their lives. Morrison's group maintained ship's routine and discipline, even to the extent of holding divine service each Sunday.

Churchill was murdered by Thompson, who was in turn killed by Churchill's native friends. In October at a formal court-martial for the loss of Bounty , he was honourably acquitted of responsibility for the loss and was promoted to post-captain.

As an adjunct to the court martial, Bligh brought charges against Purcell for misconduct and insubordination; the former carpenter received a reprimand.

The ship finally sailed on 8 May, to search for Christian and Bounty among the thousands of southern Pacific islands. The men in "Pandora's Box" were ignored as the regular crew attempted to prevent the ship from foundering.

When Edwards gave the order to abandon ship, Pandora ' s armourer began to remove the prisoners' shackles, but the ship sank before he had finished.

The survivors, including the ten remaining prisoners, then embarked on an open-boat journey that largely followed Bligh's course of two years earlier.

The prisoners were mostly kept bound hand and foot until they reached Kupang on 17 September. The prisoners were confined for seven weeks, at first in prison and later on a Dutch East India Company ship, before being transported to Cape Town.

Muspratt, through his lawyer, won a stay of execution by filing a petition protesting that court martial rules had prevented his calling Norman and Byrne as witnesses in his defence.

Some accounts claim that the condemned trio continued to protest their innocence until the last moment, [] while others speak of their "manly firmness that Much of the court martial testimony was critical of Bligh's conduct—by the time of his return to England in August , following his successful conveyance of breadfruit to the West Indies aboard Providence , professional and public opinion had turned against him.

After his return to England, Bligh was promoted to rear-admiral in and vice-admiral in , but was not offered further naval appointments. He died, aged 63, in December Of the pardoned mutineers, Heywood and Morrison returned to naval duty.

Heywood acquired the patronage of Hood and, by at the age of 31, had achieved the rank of captain. After a distinguished career, he died in Muspratt is believed to have worked as a naval steward before his death, in or before