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opposition will cost your life.” He was then 
liberated, and put into the boat with his com- 
panions in misfortune, amidst the bitterest exe- 
crations for his past tyranny, from the muti- 
neers. After some provisions had been fur- 
nished to the boat, and a compass, quadrant, 
and a couple of old sabres added, at the en- 
treaty of its occupants, the mutineers set their 
sails and abandoned their former comrades to 
their fate, with shouts of ‘* Down with Captain 
Bligh! Hurrah for O Tahaiti!” 
A regular narrative of what afterwards befell 
these unfortunate outcasts would not be strictly 
in place here; but such of my readers as are 
yet unacquainted with the facts, may learn 
with interest, that though abandoned on the 
vast ocean, in an open boat only twenty-three 
feet long, six feet nine inches broad, and two 
feet nine inches deep, very scantily provisioned, 
and destitute of a chart, they ultimately suc- 
ceeded, by unparalleled efforts, in reaching a 
place of safety. The boat being, at the period. 
of its desertion, within about thirty miles of 
the island of Tofoa, it was determined to land 
there, and take in a store of provisions, then 
