On 15 September, however, another four small boats arrived in Kupang, carrying Captain Edward Edwards and the remains of the crew of HMS "Pandora", sunk off the Barrier Reef, as well as ten "Bounty" mutineers whom he had captured and who had survived the wreck. Although accounts differ as to exactly what happened, it was around this time that the authorities became suspicious of Bryant and his party, they were discovered to be escaped convicts and imprisoned. Even in prison they were not badly treated, the men being allowed out to work two at a time. On 5 October they, all in good health, were handed over to Edwards who had chartered the "Rembang" to take his crew and the "Bounty" mutineers on to Batavia, from where he could find passages for them to the Cape of Good Hope. On the "Rembang" the prisoners were subjected to the harsh conditions that Edwards was notorious for and were put in chains and given only enough food to prevent starvation. The captain of the "Rembang" had offered to provide a cabin for Mary Bryant and the children but Edwards refused the offer. When the Rembang arrived in Batavia a month later some of the convicts, including Bryant, were already suffering from fever and were moved ashore to the Dutch East India Company Hospital. Mary Bryant was allowed to accompany her sick son and husband. Bryant's son Emmanuel died in the hospital 1 December 1791.