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Admiralty afterwards anchor appointed arrived Australia Bass Batavia Baudin boat Botany Bay Bounty British Cape Captain Bligh charts coast colony command commission continent convicts Cook Cook's court crew Crown 8vo Dampier deck despatches Diemen's Land discovered discovery Dutch Endeavour English expedition exploring fleet Flinders French George Bass given Governor King granted Grose harbour Heywood Holland Hunter Illustrations Johnston Judge-Advocate King's Lady Nelson later letter lieutenant Lord MacArthur Majesty's ship Maps March marines master mate mutiny naval pioneers navigator navy Norfolk Island Pitcairn Porpoise Port Jackson prisoners reef regiment returned to England Roebuck sailed sailor says schooner seamen sent settlement settlers ship's shore Sir Joseph Banks Sirius sixth-rate soldiers soon South Sea South Wales Corps story Straits surveying Sydney Cove Tahiti Tasman's tons took Van Diemen's Land vessel voyage Weybehays wreck wrote
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Page 82 - I do not scruple to pronounce that in the whole world there is not a worse country than what we have yet seen of this. All that is contiguous to us is so very barren and forbidding that it may with truth be said here nature is reversed...
Page 64 - That uninterrupted state of health we had all along enjoyed was soon after our arrival at Batavia succeeded by a general sickness, which delayed us there so much, that it was the 26th of December before we were able to leave this place.
Page 121 - This gentleman had the good will, the good wishes, and the good word of every one in the settlement. His conduct was exemplary, and his disposition most humane. His treatment of the runaway convicts was conciliatory, and even kind. He would go into the forests among the natives to allow these poor creatures, the runaways, an opportunity of returning to their former condition ; and, half-dead with cold and hunger, they would come and drop on their knees before him, imploring...
Page 226 - It was not possible for me to judge where this might have an end, if not stopped in time ; therefore, to prevent such disputes in future, I determined either to preserve my command, or die in the attempt ; and seizing a cutlass, I ordered him to take hold of another and defend himself, on which he called out that I was going to kill him, and immediately made concessions. I did not allow this to interfere further with the harmony of the boat's crew, and everything soon became quiet.
Page 138 - By this time the alarm had become general, and every one appeared lost in conjecture. Now they were Dutchmen sent to dispossess us, and the moment after storeships from England, with supplies for the settlement. The improbabilities which attended both these conclusions, were sunk in the agitation of the moment. It was by Governor Phillip, that this mystery was at length unravelled, and the cause of the alarm pronounced to be two French ships, which, it was now recollected, were on a voyage of discovery...
Page 173 - Bass,* her surgeon, a young man of a well-informed mind and an active disposition, to offer himself to be employed in any way in which he could contribute to the benefit of the public service, I enquired of him in what way he was desirous of exerting himself, and he informed me nothing could gratify him more effectually than my allowing him the use of a good boat and permitting him to man her with volunteers from the King's ships. I accordingly furnished him with an excellent whaleboat, well fitted,...
Page 274 - It is ordered by His Royal Highness the Prince Re-gent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty...
Page 274 - Bligh, both as affecting the tranquillity of the colony, and calling for some immediate decision. But although the Prince Regent admits the principle under which the Court have allowed this consideration to act in mitigation of the punishment which the crime of mutiny would otherwise have suggested, yet no circumstances whatever can be received by His Royal Highness in full extenuation of an assumption of power, so subversive of every principle of good order and discipline, as that under which Lieut.Col.
Page 38 - The land animals that we saw here were only a sort of raccoons, different from those of the West Indies, chiefly as to their legs, for these have very short forelegs, but go jumping upon them as the others do (and like them are very good meat...
Page 67 - I'm resolved to decamp without beat of drum, and if I can, outsail the Israelites, get to sea, and make every return in my power.