A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants: With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers |
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... passed on them ...... CHAPTER VII . THE KING'S WARRANT . page 181 The King's Warrant for the Pardon of those recommended by the Court to his Majesty's Mercy , and for the Execution of those condemned 214 CHAPTER VIII . THE LAST OF THE ...
... passed on them ...... CHAPTER VII . THE KING'S WARRANT . page 181 The King's Warrant for the Pardon of those recommended by the Court to his Majesty's Mercy , and for the Execution of those condemned 214 CHAPTER VIII . THE LAST OF THE ...
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... passing hour , and reflect the colour of the time , however fre quently it may vary . They grieve for the death of a relation , and place the body on a stage erected on piles and covered with a roof of thatch ; for they never bury the ...
... passing hour , and reflect the colour of the time , however fre quently it may vary . They grieve for the death of a relation , and place the body on a stage erected on piles and covered with a roof of thatch ; for they never bury the ...
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... passed through filtering - stones that had been procured at Teneriffe . " I now , " says Bligh , " made the ship's company acquainted with the object of the voyage , and gave assurances of the certainty of promotion to every one whose ...
... passed through filtering - stones that had been procured at Teneriffe . " I now , " says Bligh , " made the ship's company acquainted with the object of the voyage , and gave assurances of the certainty of promotion to every one whose ...
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... passing through a walk delightfully shaded with bread - fruit trees to his own house , where his wife and her sister were busily employed staining a piece of cloth red . They desired him to sit down on a mat , and with great kindness ...
... passing through a walk delightfully shaded with bread - fruit trees to his own house , where his wife and her sister were busily employed staining a piece of cloth red . They desired him to sit down on a mat , and with great kindness ...
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... passed off without any further notice . He said he had fastened some staves to a stout plank , with which he intended to make his escape ; but finding he could not effect it during the first and middle watches , as the ship had no way ...
... passed off without any further notice . He said he had fastened some staves to a stout plank , with which he intended to make his escape ; but finding he could not effect it during the first and middle watches , as the ship had no way ...
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Adams affectionate appeared arms arrival assistance beloved boat boatswain Bounty bread bread-fruit brother brought called canoes Captain Beechey Captain Bligh Captain Cook Captain Edwards Captain Pipon carpenter Charles Churchill Churchill circumstances clothes cocoanut commander conduct Cook court court-martial crew dear dearest death deck distress doubt endeavour feeling feet Fletcher Christian Fryer gave Hallet hands happy Hayward heard honour hope innocence James Morrison John John Adams kind land launch letter Lieutenant Bligh M'Intosh majesty's majesty's ship manner master-at-arms mate Matthew Quintal midshipman mind morning Morrison mutiny narrative natives NESSY HEYWOOD never night Novel observes occasion officers ordered Otaheitans Otaheite Pandora person Peter Heywood Pitcairn's Island prisoners Quintal received remained sail seamen ship ship's company shore sister situation soon Stewart sufferings tain taken thing Thomas Ellison tion told vessel vols voyage whole women young
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Page 152 - Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Page 63 - 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 more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
Page 214 - 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 so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 134 - Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Page 207 - Yet, if I am found guilty this day, they will not construe it, I trust, as the least disrespect offered to their discernment and opinion, if I solemnly declare that my heart will rely with confidence in its own innocence, until that awful period when my spirit shall be about to be separated from my body to take its everlasting flight, and be ushered into the presence of that unerring Judge, before whom all hearts are open and from whom no secrets are hid.
Page 48 - 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 flings off famine from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest...
Page 152 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Page 69 - Notwithstanding the roughness with which I was treated the remembrance of past kindnesses produced some signs of remorse in Christian. When they were forcing me out of the ship I asked him if this treatment was a proper return for the many instances he had received of my friendship? he appeared disturbed at my question and answered with much emotion: "That, captain Bligh, that is the thing; I am in hell, I am in hell.
Page 250 - Pacific islands; his only dress was a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat ornamented with the black feathers of the domestic fowl. "With a great share of good humour...
Page 214 - ... the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland...