26 THE MUTINY. 
man, armourer ; Charles Norman, carpenter's 
mate; Thomas M'Intosh, carpenter's crew; 
making twenty-five of the most able men in 
the ship. 
The nineteen souls in the Launch were as 
follow : WILLIAM BLIGH, commander ; 
John Fryer, master; William Elphinston, 
master's mate ; John Hallett, midshipman ; 
Thomas Hay ward, midshipman; Kobert 
Tinkler, a boy ; William Peckover, gunner ; 
William Cole, boatswain ; William Purcell, 
carpenter; Thomas D. Ledward, surgeon's 
mate; John Samuel, clerk and steward; 
David Nelson, botanist ; Lawrence Labogue, 
sailmaker ; Peter Linkletter, quarter-master ; 
John Norton, quarter-master ; George Simp- 
son, quarter-master's mate ; Thomas Hall, 
ship's cook ; John Smith, commander's cook ; 
Hobert Lamb, butcher. 
Having flung them a few pieces of pork, 
amounting to 32 pounds, 150 pounds of 
bread, 28 gallons of water, 6 quarts of rum, 
6 bottles of wine, four cutlasses, a quadrant, 
and a compass, with a quantity of twine, 
canvass, and cordage, the mutineers sailed 
away. Christian, as if to keep up th& 
