30 MEN IN THE LAUNCH. 
mate ; John Hallett, midshipman ; Thomas 
Hay ward, midshipman ; Robert Tinkler, a boy ; 
William Peckover, gunner ; William Cole, boat- 
swain ; William Purcell, carpenter ; Thomas D. 
Ledward, surgeon's mate ; John Samuel, clerk 
and steward ; David Nelson, botanist ; Law- 
rence Lebogue, sailmaker; Peter Linkletter, 
Siarter-master ; John Norton, quarter-master; 
eorge Simpson, quarter-master's mate; Thomas 
Hall, ship's cook ; John Smith, commander's 
cook ; Robert Lamb, butcher. 
Having flung them a few pieces of pork, 
amounting to 32 pounds, 150 pounds of bread, 
28 gallons of water, 6 quarts of rum, 6 bottles 
of .wine, four cutlasses, a quadrant, and a com- 
pass, with a quantity of twine, canvass, and 
cordage, the mutineers sailed away. Christian, 
as if to keep up the courage of his comrades, 
and exert his usurped authority in the vessel, 
ordered a dram of spirits to be served to each. 
In a legal document, signed in the presence 
of witnesses at Batavia, in October. 1789, by 
fourteen men, who had been in the launch with 
Bligh, it was declared, not only that huzzas 
were uttered in the Bounty, but that several 
expressions were used, which made the attestants 
believe that the intention of the mutineers was 
to return to Otaheite. Little did they think, 
when shouting with joy at their miscalled 
liberty, what troubles they were bringing upon 
their own heads ! 
