P I T C A I E N, 
CHAPTER I. 
THE BOUNTY BREAD-FRUIT OTAHEITE FAREWELL TO 
OTAHEITE THE MUTINY IN THE SHIP MURDER OF JOHN 
NORTON AT TOFOA SUFFERINGS AND ESCAPES OF BLIGH 
AND HIS COMPANY FEEJEE ISLANDS TIMOR BATAVIA 
ARRIVAL OF BLIGH AND ELEVEN OF HIS CREW IN 
ENGLAND CAPTAIN, AFTERWARDS VICE-ADMIRAL, BLIGH. 
IN the year 1787 his Majesty's armed ship, 
The, Bounty, was fitted out by the English 
government, the command being given to 
Lieutenant Bligh, to proceed to the South 
Sea islands for plants of the bread-fruit-tree, 
which afforded to the inhabitants of those 
islands, and of Otaheite especially, the 
greater portion of their food. This step was 
taken in consequence of representations made 
to King George the Third, by merchants 
and planters interested in his Majesty's 
West Indian possessions. 
Lieutenant William Bligh, who was then 
about thirty-three years of age, had been 
