20 DEATH OF THE SUEGEON. 
by Bligh, and dated October 25, 1788, were 
stuck up on the main-mast. With respect to 
curiosities, it appears that none struck the sea- 
men so forcibly as roasted pigs and fine bread- 
fruits; and these came in abundance. 
In about six weeks after their arrival, the 
number of the party was reduced to forty-four, 
by the death of the surgeon, who could have 
been but of little use to them, as he had suffered 
from a long illness, the effect of his intemperance 
and indolence. During the whole course of the 
voyage he had scarcely ever stirred out of his 
cabin, and had never been prevailed upon to 
take half-a-dozen turns upon deck at a time. 
Bligh wished that the body should be buried on 
shore ; and the natives were not only ready to 
meet his wishes, but on the day following the 
surgeon's death, they were found digging the 
grave. Without any communication with the 
ship, these kind people had marked out the 
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 having been 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 choice fruits, which his friend, Sir Joseph 
