Mutiny on the Bounty

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James Norman Hall. Mutiny on the Bounty

Mutiny on the Bounty

Table of Content

Foreword

I. Lieutenant Bligh

II. Sea Law

III. At Sea

IV. Tyranny

V. Tahiti

VI. An Indian Household

VII. Christian and Bligh

VIII. Homeward Bound

IX. The Mutiny

X. Fletcher Christian

XI. The Last of the Bounty

XII. Tehani

XIII. The Moon of Pipiri

XIV. The Pandora

XV. Doctor Hamilton

XVI. The Roundhouse

XVII. The Search for the Bounty

XVIII. The Last of the Pandora

XIX. Ten Weary Months

XX. Sir Joseph Banks

XXI. H.M.S. Duke

XXII. The Case for the Crown

XXIII. The Defense

XXIV. Condemned

XXV. Tinkler

XXVI. Withycombe

XXVII. Epilogue

The Trilogy of “The Bounty”

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James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff

e-artnow, 2021

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“And remember,” put in Courtney, with a manner of friendly admonishment, “remember, as Mr. Bligh says, that no laws are more just than those governing the conduct of men at sea. Not only just, but necessary; discipline must be preserved, on a merchantman as well as on a man-of-war, and mutiny and piracy suppressed.”

“Yes,” said Bligh, “our sea law is stern, but it has the authority of centuries. And it has grown more humane with time,” he continued, not without a trace of regret. “Keel-hauling has been abolished, save among the French, and a captain no longer has the right to condemn and put to death one of his crew.”

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