CHAPTER IT. 
SCENE ON THE ISLAND OF TOFOA — MURDER OF JOHN NORTON 
■>— SUFFERINGS OF BLIGH AND HIS CREW — FEEJEE ISLANDS 
CANNIBALISM — BLIGH's LOG-BOOK — MISERABLE ALLOWANCE 
— PRATERS IN THE LAUNCH — ENDEAVOUR STRAITS— TIMOR 
ARRIVAL AT COUPANG BLIGH'S RETURN TO ENGLAND 
MEMOIR OF BLIGH. 
The eighteen men, and their captain, thus cast 
adrift on the wide ocean, soon found themselves in 
a miserable condition. They began with touch- 
ing at Tofoa, an island about thirty miles from 
the scene of the mutiny. There they landed, 
endeavouring to obtain bread-fruit and water. 
In doing this, they seem to have forgotten their 
own defenceless state. After some deceitful 
show of friendship, the natives who lined the 
beach gave signs of violence, by knocking stones 
together which they had in their hands. Mac- 
caackavow, one of their chiefs, having in vain 
requested Bligh to remain that night, the 1st of 
May, 1789, the treacherous old man got up, and 
said, " Then, mattie," which signifies, " We will 
kill you ! " and left him. 
Scarcely had the helpless voyagers reached 
their boat, when the stir which had been com- 
menced by the chief came to its height. About 
two hundred natives attacked them with stones, 
which flew like a shower of shot : and all would 
probably have been cut off by these cowardly 
savages, had not one of the crew, John Norton, 
quarter-master, run up the beach, for the purpose 
