The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences

Twenty years had passed away, and the _Bounty_, and Fletcher Christian, and the piratical crew that he had carried off with him in that ship, had long ceased to occupy a thought...

--O! I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock Against my very hea...

The boat is lower'd with all the haste of hate, With its slight plank between thee and thy fate; Her only cargo such a scant supply As promises the death their hands deny; And j...

If any person in or belonging to the fleet shall make, or endeavour to make, any mutinous assembly, upon any pretence whatsoever, every person offending herein, and being convic...

The bread-tree, which, without the ploughshare, yields The unreap'd harvest of unfurrow'd fields, And bakes its unadulterated loaves Without a furnace in unpurchased groves, And...

--Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him; for within him hell He brings, and round about him, nor from hell One step no mo...

Well, believe this-- No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half...

Where all partake the earth without dispute, And bread itself is gather'd as a fruit; Where none contest the fields, the woods, the streams:-- The goldless age, where gold distu...

" 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 CON...