CHAPTER II. 
SCENE ON THE ISLAND OF TOFOA MURDER OF JOHN NORTON 
SUFFERINGS OF BLIGH AND HIS CREW FEJEE ISLANDS 
BLIGH'S LOG-BOOK MISERABLE ALLOWANCE PRATERS IN 
THE LAUNCH ENDEAVOUR STRAITS TIMOR ARRIVAL AT 
COUPANG MEMOIR OF BLIGH. 
THE party of men thus cast adrift on the wide 
ocean, were in a miserable condition. They 
began with touching at Tofoa, an island about 
thirty miles from the scene of the mutiny. 
There they landed, endeavouring to obtain 
bread-fruit, and water ; but after some show of 
friendship, the natives who lined the beach, gave 
signs of violence by knocking stones together, 
which they had in each hand. Macca-ackavow, 
one of their chiefs, having in vain requested 
Bligh to remain that night, May 1, 1789, the 
treacherous old chief got up, and said, " Then, 
mattie," which signifies, " We will kill you," 
and left him. Scarcely had the poor voyagers 
reached their boat, when 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 of re- 
leasing the boat. This brave man fell a sacrifice, 
