the "Bounty" was fitted out under command of
Lieutenant William Bligh (q.v.) to proceed to Tahiti to carry plants
thence to the West Indian Islands; and it was after the cargo had been
secured and the vessel was on her way that the mutiny broke out, and
Lieutenant Bligh and some of his crew were turned adrift in a small boat
in the open sea. The mutineers returned with the vessel to Tahiti,
whence a number of them, with a few native men and women, sailed to the
desolate and lone islet of Pitcairn. Lieutenant Bligh ultimately reached
England, and was again commissioned to undertake the work of
transplanting the plants, which in the year 1792-1793 he successfully
accomplished.

A somewhat similar but inferior fruit is produced by an allied species,
the Jack or Jak, _Artocarpus integrifolia_, growing in India, Ceylon and
the Eastern Archipelago. The large fruit is from 12 to 18 in. long by 6
to 8 in. in diameter, and is much eaten by the natives in India. This
tree is chiefly valuable on account of its timber, which has a grain
very similar to mahogany, and although at first light-coloured it
gradually assumes much of the appearance of that wood.

BREAKING BULK, a nautical term for the taking out of a portion of the
cargo of a ship, or the beginning to unload; and used in a legal sense
for taking anything out of a package or parcel, or in any way destroying
its entirety. It was thus important in connexion with the subject of
bailment, involving as it did the curious distinction that where a
bailee received possession of goods in a box or package, and then sold
them as a whole, he was guilty only of a breach of trust, but if he
"broke bulk" or caused a separation of the goods, and sold a part or
all, he was guilty of felony. This distinction was abolished by the
Larceny Act 1861, which enacted that whoever, being a bailee of any
chattel, money or valuable security, should fraudulently take or convert
the same to his own use, or the use of any person other than the owner,
although he should not break bulk or otherwise determine the bailment,
should be guilty of larceny (s. 3).

BREAKWATER. When a harbour (q.v.) is proposed to be established on an
exposed coast, whether for naval or commercial purposes, to provide a
protected approach to a port or river, or to serve as a refuge for
vessels from storms, the necessary shelter, so far as it is not
naturally furnished by a bay or projecting headlands, has to be sec