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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat, by William Bligh This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat Author: William Bligh Release Date: January 11, 2007 [EBook #20337] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY *** Produced by Chuck Greif, V. L. Simpson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Posner Memorial Collection (http://posnet.library.cmu.edu/Posner/)). A NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP _BOUNTY_; AND THE SUBSEQUENT VOYAGE OF PART OF THE CREW, IN THE SHIP's BOAT, From TOFOA, one of the Friendly Islands, To TIMOR, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Written by LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BLIGH. ILLUSTRATED WITH CHARTS. LONDON: PRINTED FOR GEORGE NICOL, BOOKSELLER TO HIS MAJESTY, PALL-MALL. MDCCXC. ADVERTISEMENT. The following Narrative is only a part of a voyage undertaken for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit Tree from the South Sea Islands to the West Indies. The manner in which this expedition miscarried, with the subsequent transactions and events, are here related. This part of the voyage is not first in the order of time, yet the circumstances are so distinct from that by which it was preceded, that it appears unnecessary to delay giving as much early information as possible concerning so extraordinary an event. The rest will be laid before the Public as soon as it can be got ready; and it is intended to publish it in such a manner, as, with the present Narrative, will make the account of the voyage compleat. At present, for the better understanding the following pages, it is sufficient to inform the reader, that in August, 1787, I was appointed to command the Bounty, a ship of 215 tons burthen, carrying 4 six-p
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