126 THE CHRONOMETER OF THE BOUNTY. 
which Captain Cook had carried out in his last 
voyage, and which had performed so well. It 
was constructed by Mr. Kendall, and was a copy 
of Mr. Harrison's/' * 
This time-keeper was taken out again by 
Captain Bligh in 1787 ; and, after the mutiny on 
board the Bounty, was carried by the mutineers 
to Pitcairn's Island. According to May hew 
Folger's statement, it was in the possession of 
the governor of Juan Fernandez in 1808. It 
was afterwards sold in Chili ; and subsequently 
came into the possession of Alexander Cald- 
cleuch, Esq., of Valparaiso, of whom Captain 
Herbert, R.N. (now Admiral Sir Thomas Her- 
bert) purchased it, in 1840, for fifty guineas. 
That officer, who then commanded the Calliope, 
had the instrument repaired at Valparaiso, took 
it with him to China, and, in 1843, brought it 
home in the Blenheim. It was exhibited in the 
Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, in 1844. 
It is six inches in diameter, with three dials 
on its face ; one for hours., one for minutes, and 
one for seconds; with a massive outer silver 
case, made as the outer cases of pocket watches 
were, eighty or ninety years since ; so that its 
appearance is that of a gigantic watch. It has 
" Larcum Kendall, London," inscribed on the 
face. The same name, and the date, A.D. 
1771, are engraved inside. It is at present in 
the United Service Museum, Scotland-yard, 
Whitehall-place, London, Sir Thomas Herbert 
having presented it to that institution. This 
* Captain Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, in 1766, 
rol. i. p. 3. Ed. 1784. 
