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thousand bread-fruit plants, he began the return voyage, but 

 his sailors could not forget the beautiful Tahitians and about 

 a month after sailing they mutinied. Bligh and eighteen of 

 the men who had remained faithful to him were placed in an 

 open boat and the ship sailed back to Tahiti where they took on 

 a very different cargo and then sailed away again finally land- 

 ing on Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific. In the mean- 

 time, Bligh and his party in the open boat made the trij) of 

 more than 4.000 miles across the Pacific and finally reached the 

 Moluccas. Making his way to England, he was given com- 

 tnand of a new ship and as Captain Bligh of the Ship Provi- 

 dence set out once more for Tahiti where he secured a new 

 cargo and at last delivered it to its destination in Jamaica. 



Amkricax Legion Daisy. — The American Legion has 

 had the usual luck of those who attempt to adopt a represen- 

 tative flower that does not represent anything in particular. 

 In the beginning the I)oppy of Flanders was most appropriately 

 chosen, but later it was rejected because it was not a native 

 American and because it was feared that it might become a 

 weed if introduced into this countrv. As to the last men- 

 tioned objection, it ma}' be said that the poppy has been cul- 

 tivated for many years on this side without showing a ten- 

 dency to spread from the garden. At the Legion's third na- 

 tional convention the "American Daisy" was adopted. Those 

 who sponsored the claims of the daisy were careful to point 

 out that the flower designated is not the daisy of Burns and 

 Shakespeare, but tlieir botanical knowledge, was apparently not 

 extensive enough to apjirise them of the fact that the "Amer- 

 ican" daisy is by origin an English plant, that it is a noxious 

 weed in any country, and is detested by every cultivator of the 

 soil. The sentimental may dignify it with the name of 

 "Marguerite," but the farmer calls it plain "white-weed". 



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