230 SUCCESS OF THE CONSPIRATORS. 
and a sailor, the cabin of Lieutenant Bligh, 
whom they found tranquilly sleeping. They fell 
on him, bound his hands behind his back, and 
threatened him with instant death if he uttered 
a sound, or offered the smallest resistance. 
Bligh, perfectly undaunted, endeavoured to 
grasp his weapons, and, on finding himself 
overpowered, called aloud for help; but the 
mutineers having, at the same moment, seized 
on all who were strangers to the plot, the un- 
fortunate Commander had no resource but sub- 
mission to his fate. He was carried on deck 
with no other covering than his shirt, and there 
found his faithful followers, nineteen in num- 
ber, bound in a similar manner. 
The long-boat was now lowered; Bligh, in 
the mean time, attempting to recall the muti- 
neers to their duty by unavailing remon- 
strances, to which renewed menaces of imme- 
diate death were the only answers. 
When the boat was ready, and the officers 
and sailors had been separately unbound and 
lowered into it, Christian addressed himself to 
Bligh: ‘* Now, Captain, your officers and crew 
are ready; it is time for you to follow; any 
