Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XLVII.--The Transplantation of the Bread-Fruit Tree--The

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Voyage of the Bounty--A Mutiny--Bligh, the Captain, with Eighteen Men, cast adrift in the Launch--Incidents of the Voyage from Tahiti to Timor--Terrible Sufferings and a Marvellous Escape--Arrival of the Mutineers at Tahiti--Their Removal to Pitcairn's Island--Subsequent History--Voyage of Vancouver--Algerine Piracy--Burning of the Philadelphia--Proud Position of the United States 492