20 DELAY AT OTAHEITE. 
grave, east and west. Tinah, a friendly chief, 
asked Bligh, if they were doing right, adding, 
" There the sun rises, and there it sets." It was 
thought that they had learned the practice of 
burying east and west from the Spaniards ; a 
captain of a Spanish vessel havingbeen buried at 
Oeitepeha in 1774. 
Bligh, in his " Voyage to the South Seas," 
published a plan and section of the Bounty, 
showing the manner of fitting and stowing the 
pots for receiving the bread-fruit plants. Of 
these plants he had 1,105, carefully selected. 
He had also procured a number of other 
plants and fine fruits, which his friend, Sir 
Joseph Banks, had recommended him to obtain. 
Indeed, the time and attention which he had 
bestowed on the main object of his undertaking 
may be mentioned as accounting in some degree 
for what might else appear to have been a 
needless delay at Otaheite. It is probable that 
he would have been spared much trouble and 
misery had he quitted Otaheite sooner ; but he 
had been induced, partly by the reason above 
given, and partly by the kind persuasions of the 
chiefs, to defer his departure. 
The events which were now impending over 
Bligh, contrast darkly with the scenes of cheer- 
fulness and gaiety, arid full success, which had 
hitherto marked his enterprise. On one occasion, 
(Nov. 13, 1788,) he had a large company to 
dine with him on board. Some of his Otaheitan 
visitors had observed, that they always drank 
his Britannic Majesty's health as soon as the 
cloth was removed; "but," says Bligh, "they 
