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Bibliographie de l'Océanie. 1951

Fryer, and mind this, if you make one attempt at resistance you are a dead man. As soon as they reached the deck they saw Christian standing on the poop, giving orders to get out the boat. Consider the consequences! This dog, this infernal, malignant scoundrel, has brought all this upon himself.


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Stand back, I tell you--I am dangerous! We have always been friends, and you may trust me. Resist this mad impulse before it is too late. Let the captain go down to his cabin again and leave me to tackle the men. With a fearful oath Christian turned upon him and pointed his cutlass at Fryer's heart. I tell you for the last time. I don't want to murder you, Fryer, but, by the God above me, I'll run you through if you don't cease!

Fryer's bronzed cheek paled a moment, but his eye never quailed even when the cutlass point touched his breast. That boat is good enough for such a ruffian," then lowering his weapon he turned away and beckoned to Smith and McCoy to leave their prisoner and come to him, and for half a minute he conversed eagerly with them; while Bligh managed to get near enough to the master to speak. Fryer," he said quickly, yet calmly, "there must be some of the officers and men who will not fail me in the hour of need.

For God's sake, Fryer, try to find some of them ere this villain murders us all! But low as were his tones Christian heard him, and stepping up to the captain and Fryer, when within a foot or two of Bligh, he seized him by the shoulder and made as if to run him through. All the officers and men not with me are guarded below; you can do no good now; your authority on this floating hell is gone for ever.

Here, two of you men take Mr. Fryer back to his cabin and lock him in. By this time the cutter was afloat; but Christian, realising that it would be impossible to crowd all of those who were well-affected to Bligh into her, had also lowered the launch, a six-oared boat measuring twenty-three feet from stem to stern. Two officers, Hayward and Hallet, and Elphinstone, Heywood, and Stewart midshipmen , Ledward the surgeon, Cole the boatswain, Purcell the carpenter, and some seamen, meanwhile had been secured either below or on deck. One or two of the youngsters, among whom was Peter Heywood, a lad of fifteen, scarcely understanding what they were doing in the confusion and excitement, had been compelled to lend the mutineers a hand in getting out the launch; and Bligh's keen eye happened to fall on this boy as he was helping with the boat-falls.

This was unfortunate for Heywood, who was at once put down by his commander as one of the ring-leaders, and suffered for it later. Suddenly Christian sprang upon the poop from the main-deck, and again held a consultation with Smith and McCoy. He turned and gazed savagely at Bligh, who met his look with unflinching calmness. For a few moments the two men regarded each other with looks of deadliest hatred, and then Fletcher Christian's voice rang out.

Then with oaths, struggles, and entreaties some twenty men were dragged along the deck and passed down into the boat. Bligh, who stood near the gangway, now made an appeal to the leader of the mutineers, who was on the poop watching him. Christian, I will promise nothing more shall come of it," he called out. The master's mate, flinging down the cutlass he still held, ran down the poop and faced his enemy; and the crew drew back as he spoke. I could kill you as you stand before me now, but I am no murderer. Tyrant and coward, I and those who have suffered with me have done with you for ever.

A crimson flush dyed the commander's face from brow to chin, and he clenched his hands together tightly at the insulting words. Then the boat was veered astern, and McCoy, making the painter fast to the stern rail, turned to his leader for further orders. Going to the stern of the ship, Christian eyed the condition of the boat for a minute in silence, till the boatswain made an attempt to soften his heart.

Christian," he cried, standing up in the boat, "let me plead with you for myself as well as Captain Bligh. Cole," Christian answered. You know, Cole, that during the whole voyage I have been treated like a dog. Fryer must go with you--do you think we are fools? But some or the men may come out of the boat.

A brief discussion among those in the boat ended in two or three seamen asking to be taken on board. The boat was hauled alongside under the counter and they ascended to the deck; and the boatswain, who was a relative of one of them, said to him, "Goodbye and God bless you, my boy; but for my wife and children I too would stay with the ship also. Christian," he said, "I'll pawn my honour as a King's officer-- I'll give you my solemn word, with God as my witness, never to think of this if you will desist from this outrage even now. Consider my wife and family.

The mutineer laughed mockingly. If you had any honour things would not have come to this pass; and if you had any regard for your wife and family you should have thought of them before, and not have behaved like the heartless villain you are. Then, by Christian's orders, Bligh's clothes, his commission, private journal, and pocket-book were passed down, his hands were liberated, and he was ordered into the boat, which was hauled amidships to receive him.

Christian handed to him over the side a book of nautical tables and his own quadrant, saying as he did so: "That book is sufficient for every purpose, and you know my quadrant to be a good one. Again the boat was veered astern. Bligh, standing up, raised his clenched hand and cursed the mutineers bitterly, swearing vengeance against those on the ship who would not help him to retake her. Laughs and jeers from the group on the Bounty's poop was the only notice taken of him. Then for the last time the mutineers heard his voice and they ceased their gibes at the dignity of his tones as he spoke to those whom he thought yet faithful to him on board.

The boat's painter was then cast off by Quintal, and the crew took to their oars, Bligh giving his commands in a calm and collected manner. The ocean was calm and only a faint breeze rippled the surface of the placid sea. As the departing commander and his crew dipped their oars into the water they saw Christian leaning on the rail over the stern, regarding them intently. Presently he stood up and gave an order; the yards were swung round, and a cheer came over to them from the ship--"Hurrah for Tahiti!

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And as the crowded boat grows smaller and smaller to the vision of the desperate man who stands gazing at her from the Bounty's stern, so let those in her go out of this story; they have no further part in it. But the memory of that daring boat voyage will live for ever in our country's annals. Who has not read of Bligh's indomitable courage and resolution, his admirable forethought for the eighteen suffering beings who braved the venture with him, from the first day when the over-crowded little craft was cast off from the ship until it sighted Timor, forty-one days after?

His successful conduct of that terrible voyage over an all but unknown sea, losing as he did only one of his men, yet encountering the risk of wreck by violent storms, of massacre by savage islanders, of the pangs of hunger and the agonies of thirst, well entitled him to the honours that his country paid him. In that act of his life he played his part nobly, and all else that he did ill, when measured against such fortitude in the face of danger and death, may well be forgotten. STANDING with folded arms and gloomy face, in which all passion seemed to be dead, the leader of the mutineers watched the launch gradually increase her distance from the Bounty.

The last words of Bligh as the boat was cast off still rang in his ears: "I will do you justice if ever I reach England. These were ominous words, and they brought vividly before him the horrors of his situation.

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Why did I not put an end to my life before this madness got the better of me? The wild cheer of "Hurrah for Tahiti! It was evident that to others besides himself a return to Tahiti was one of the inducements for the desperate deed just accomplished.

And he was quick to realise, too, that for the safety of them all he must assert himself and take command of the ship. Even had Bligh not heard that defiant cry as the mutineers swung round the yards, Tahiti would be the first place thought of by those who would surely come in search of them. How soon would that search begin? That it would begin sooner or later he never doubted.

The possibility of Bligh and those with him not being picked up by some ship, or not reaching some place of safety, never occurred to him. And yet every one but himself realised how small indeed was the chance that those in the frail little launch would escape death in one or other of the lingering and dreadful forms to which he had so mercilessly consigned them. The murmuring of voices roused him from his gloomy reflections, and presently McCoy, Quintal, Smith, and others of the more active of the mutineers gathered round their leader, while the rest of the men, forming a group on the main deck, were talking in excited tones of what ought to be done for the best.

He turned to those near him and spoke, with every trace of excitement absent from his voice and manner. Now that the thing is done we have to guard ourselves for the future.

Therefore, as you all have to rely upon me for the navigation of the ship, and as I am the only officer left, until we have settled upon some safe island, and got rid of her, you will have to obey my orders. Are you agreed to that? I have decided to take the ship to Tubuai.

It will not be safe for us to remain at Tahiti; search will be made for the Bounty, and Tahiti will be the first place a ship will visit. You, Smith, McCoy, and Quintal, who were among the first to stand by me in this undertaking, can arrange with me a plan for our mutual safety.

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Do not fear, you shall see Tahiti again. Now listen, and I will tell you what my plan is. First, let us go to Tubuai and form a settlement there. Then, when that is finished, I propose to return to Tahiti and bring away as many people as choose to come--that is if these women still run in your minds. There was a bitter ring in his last words, and Smith, in a low voice, asked him to humour the men more, "for remember, sir," said he, "you have given them their liberty and you will have to take care how you cross them.

The caution was needed; most of the men by no means relished the prospect of delay in returning to the delights of Tahiti, and one of them in no uncertain manner expressed his sentiments, adding--"You know Mr.