38 MISERABLE ALLOWANCE. 
and scrupulous manner. A storm of thunder 
and lightning, with heavy rain, though it 
drenched them once more to the skin, was yet 
very acceptable, as it gave them about twenty 
gallons of water. 
The annexed engraving, from a drawing made 
expressly for this work from the originals, shows 
the bowl, or gourd, out of which the commander 
took his meals; the bullet- weight ; the little 
quarter-of-a-pint horn mug for serving out the 
water ; and, though last, not the least interesting, 
Bligh's own boat-log-book. All these are much 
treasured by his daughters, who kindly per- 
mitted them to be sketched. 
The diameter of the gourd is rather more than 
five inches : the depth nearly four inches. The 
following words are cut with a knife under the 
string, 
W. Bligh, April, 1789. 
Written in ink round the gourd : 
The cup I eat my miserable allowance out of. 
The horn cup is about two inches in depth, 
and not quite two inches in diameter. Round 
it are these words written in ink by Bligh : 
Allowance of water 3 times a-day. 
The bullet is set in a small hasp-shaped 
metal plate, which Bligh afterwards used to 
wear suspended by a riband round his neck. 
Above the bullet are these words : 
This bullet, -^ of a Ib. was the allowance of Bread which sup- 
ported 18 men for 48 days, served to each person three times 
a-day. 
