The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (87 page)

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in Fryer-Mrs. Fryer correspondence
 
Fryer’s description of
 
Fryer’s memoir of
 
Great Barrier Reef crossed in
 
missing coconuts incident in
 
mutiny in
 
New Holland leg of
 
Norton’s death in
 
onset of
 
popular fascination with
 
Tofua attack in
 
Bligh, William, second breadfruit voyage of
 
Adventure Bay sojourn in
 
Bligh resented in
 
Bligh’s command style in
 
Bligh’s illness in
 
Bligh’s wages in
 
and Bond’s criticism of Bligh
 
Coupang sojourn in
 
Endeavour Strait navigated in
 
intelligence on mutineers in
 
navigational surveys in
 
Tahiti sojourn in
 
West Indies sojourn in
 
see also Providence
 
Blossom
 
Board of Longitude
 
Bond, Francis Godolphin
 
Bond, Thomas
 
Book of Common Prayer
 
Borderers, The
(Wordsworth)
 
Borrow, George
 
Botany Bay
 
Bounty:
 
armament of
 
Bligh appointed commander of
 
commission of
 
court-martial for loss of
 
deficiencies of
 
described
 
destruction of
 
dimensions of
 
great cabin of
 
Pandora
’s search for
 
rated as cutter
 
small boats of
 
warrant officers of
 
Bounty
(
cont.
)
 
young gentlemen of
 
see also
Bligh, William, homeward voyage of
 
Bounty,
breadfruit mission of:
 
Banks’s instructions for
 
Bligh’s promotion status and
 
desertions from
 
proposal for
 
sailing orders for
 
Bounty,
outbound voyage of
 
Adventure Bay visit in
 
alleged scurvy outbreak in
 
Bligh-officers disputes in
 
Bligh-Purcell confrontations in
 
Bligh’s care of crew in
 
“Bountys Isles” discovered in
 
British Queen
encountered in
 
Cape Horn ordeal in
 
Cape Town visit in
 
Christian made acting lieutenant in
 
Churchill’s memoir of
 
dancing incident in
 
delayed departure of
 
equator crossed in
 
floggings in
 
Heywood’s report on
 
miles logged in
 
onset of
 
overhauls and provisioning in
 
Tenerife stopover in
 
three watches in
 
Valentine’s death in
 
weather in
 
Bounty,
Tahitian sojourn of
 
Bligh’s injunctions on behavior in- 9
 
Bligh-Tynah friendship in
 
Bounty
relocated in
 
breadfruit operation in
 
cut-cable incident in
 
desertions in
 
European-Tahitian relations in
 
floggings in
 
mutiny list in
 
natives’ welcome in
 
officers’ dereliction in
 
Point Venus camp in
 
rainy season in
 
tattoo practice in
 
thievery in
 
Bounty Bay
 
Bounty
loyalists, Dutch authorities’ questioning of
 
Bounty
mutineers:
 
Christian’s relationship with
 
imprisoned in
Hector
- 98
 
Pandora
’s roundup of
 
Pitcairn’s Island settlement of- 53
 
quarrels among
 
schooner of
 
in sinking of
Pandora
 
Tahitian families of
 
Tubuai sojourn of on voyage to England
 
see also
court-martial of
Bounty
mutineers; mutiny;
specific individuals
 
“Bountys Isles,” 98
 
Bounty’
s launch, voyage of
 
Bowyer, George
 
breadfruit plant (
Artocarpus incisa
)
 
delivered to to West Indies
 
slave trade and
 
Bridport, Alexander, Lord
 
Britannia
 
British Critic
 
British East India Company
 
British Queen
 
Briton
 
Brown, John
 
Brown, William
 
dancing incident and
 
Brunswick
 
mutineers executed on
 
Bryant, Charlotte
 
Bryant, Mary
 
Bunker Hill, Battle of
 
Burkett, Mary
 
Burkett, Thomas
 
background of
 
in Cole’s testimony
 
court verdict on
 
defense of
 
execution of
 
in Fryer’s testimony
 
in Hallett’s testimony
 
in Hayward’s testimony
 
in Millward’s defense argument
 
in mutiny
 
in Peckover’s testimony
 
in Purcell’s testimony
 
Tahitian family of
 
Burney, Fanny
 
Burney, James
 
Byrn, Michael- 73
 
acquittal of
 
in Bligh’s report
 
in Burkett’s defense argument
 
in Cole’s testimony
 
defense of
 
Edward Christian’s interview with- 25
 
in Edwards’s testimony
 
fate of
 
in Fryer’s testimony
 
in Hallett’s testimony
 
in Hayward’s testimony
 
in Muspratt’s defense argument
 
in mutiny
 
in Purcell’s testimony
 
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
 
 
 
Calcutta
 
Calypso
 
Campbell, Duncan
 
Bligh as employee of
 
Bligh’s correspondence with
 
Camperdown, Battle of
 
Cam’s Hall
 
Cape Horn
 
Cape of Good Hope
 
Cape Town
 
Cape Verde Islands
 
Cape York
 
Carter, John
 
Carteret, Philip
 
Carthy, Francis
 
Centaur
 
Ceylon
 
Charlotte, Queen of England
 
Chatham
 
Chatham, John Pitt, Earl of
 
Chatham Dockyard
 
Christiaan, Captain
 
Christian, Ann
 
Christian, Bridget Senhouse
 
Christian, Charles (brother)- 68
 
Middlesex
mutiny and
 
Christian, Charles (father)
 
Christian, Charles (son)
 
Christian, Cloberry
 
Christian, Edward
 
“Appendix” of
 
death of
 
Heywood’s anonymous letter to
 
mutiny inquiry of,
see
mutiny, Edward Christian’s inquiry into
 
personality of
 
Christian, Elizabeth
 
Christian, Fletcher
 
in Adventure Bay stopover
 
in Anamooka visit
 
background of
 
Bligh’s conflicts with
 
Bligh’s relationship with
 
Christian, Fletcher (
cont.
)
 
in
Bounty
’s Tahiti sojourn
 
in Burkett’s defense argument
 
in Byrn’s defense argument
 
Charles Christian’s account of
 
in Coleman’s defense argument
 
in Cole’s testimony
 
death of- 68
 
described in deserters list
 
Edward Christian’s effort to clear,
see
mutiny, Edward Christian’s inquiry into
 
in Ellison’s defense argument
 
family of, in reaction to mutiny news

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