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with cutlasses and pistols, called out loudly for 
assistance. On his demanding what they meant, 
" Hold your tongue, sir, or you are dead this 
instant," was the answer which he received. 
Some of the mutineers, among whom Christian, 
Churchill, Mills, and Burkitt, were the most 
active, with oaths, and violence, tied his hands 
with cords, behind his back, not giving him time 
to dress ; and forcing him on to the deck in his 
shirt, kept him under a guard behind the mizen- 
mast. They had secured the officers, who were 
not of their party, by placing sentinels at their 
doors. The boatswain and others, having been 
compelled to hoist out the launch, Bligh and 
eighteen men were forced to go into her, and were 
quickly veered astern of the ship by a rope. 
Besides Christian, and eight other mutineers, 
whose names will be mentioned in a future page, 
as afterwards settling at Pitcairn, the following 
remained in the Bounty: Peter Hey wood, mid- 
shipman ; George Stewart, midshipman ; James 
Morrison, boatswain's mate ; Charles Churchill, 
master at arms ; Matthew Thompson, John 
Summer, Richard Skinner, Thomas Burkitt, 
John Millward, Thomas Ellison, Michael Byrne, 
seamen ; Henry Hillbrant, cooper ; William 
Musprat, commander's steward; Joseph Cole- 
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 
