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Title: The Eventful History Of The Mutiny And Piratical Seizure
Of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause And Consequences

Author: Sir John Barrow

Release Date: December 23, 2004 [EBook #14424]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE EVENTFUL HISTORY

OF THE

MUTINY AND PIRATICAL SEIZURE

OF H.M.S. BOUNTY:

ITS CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCES.

[By Sir John Barrow]

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.
MDCCCXXXI.

CONTENTS

PREFACE
CHAPTER I. OTAHEITE
" II. THE BREAD-FRUIT
" III. THE MUTINY
" IV. THE OPEN-BOAT NAVIGATION
" V. THE 'PANDORA'
" VI. THE COURT-MARTIAL
" VII. THE KING'S WARRANT
" VIII. THE LAST OF THE MUTINEERS
CONCLUSION
ADDITIONAL NOTE
ENDNOTES

PREFACE

The Editor of this little volume (for he presumes not to write _Author_)
has been induced to bring into one connected view what has hitherto
appeared only as detached fragments (and some of these not generally
accessible)--the historical narrative of an event which deeply
interested the public at the time of its occurrence, and from which the
naval service in particular, in all its ranks, may still draw
instructive and useful lessons.

The story in itself is replete with interest. We are taught by _The
Book_ of sacred history that the disobedience of our first parents
entailed on our globe of earth a sinful and a suffering race: in our
time there has sprung up from the most abandoned of this sinful
family--from pirates, mutineers, and murderers--a little society which,
under the precepts of that sacred volume, is characterized by religion,
morality, and innocence. The discovery of this happy people, as
unexpected as it was accidental, and all that regards their condition
and history, partake so much of th