Arizona republican., 1892-09-10

 could lose themselves and, being Spared storm and shipwreck, exist so long under such conditions and not run upon sail or make an island refuge.
 On the morning of April 2s, 17sS, the captain of the British ship Bounty, then in the south Pacific 20 degs below the equator and 5000 miles from the shores of either continent, was seized while asleep in his cabin, bound and taken on deck into the presence of his crew. the majority of whom m-twenty-seven out of forty-fve- were in open mutiny. The mutineers made short work of it, and set their deposed leader, who was Lieut. William Bligh, of the navy, adrift in one of the ships launches. Eighteen sailors and officers who were not in the strike also entered the launch, and the party was ordered by the mutineers to shove of from the ship and take its chances on the roaring sea
 The brutes on the Bounty had little compassion for their late comrades, and stored in the launch l50 pounds of bread, thirty-tw pounds of meat, a twenty-eiRht gallon cask of water and twelve quarts of liquor. The weight of the nineteen cast aways, with their provisions some cloth ing and a few cutlasses spared from the ships stores sunk the boat so low in the water that the sea broke over the stern at the slightest swell
 The mutiny took place near the Island of Tofoa, one of the Friendly's, where the ship Bounty had shortly before taken on a supply of breadfruit plants to transport to the West Indies. Bligh steered for that island again. intending to add to the stock of food and water in the launch. While the castaways were searching for supplies the savage natives chased them back to the beach and pelted them with stones as they re-embarked, seizing one poor belated fellow, whom they hammered to death.
 This experience at Tofoa showed the for lorn navigators what they must expect in any of the isles which stud the south Pa cific. Bligh had been with Capt. Cook in his expeditions in that region, and was one of his party when the daring explorer was savagely butchered in the Sandwich Islands a few years before. He knew that those is- lands, so lsvishly supplied with everything to meet the wants of man-nuts, fruit water and breadfruit--were peopled by races as untamed as wolves and as fierce when aroused. He therefore readily agreed when his men begged him to steer for some civilized coast on the faroff con tinents. He told them that the only hope lay 200 leagues distant in the Dutch col ony of the Island of Timor, north of New Holland, the present Australia.
 In order to make that, with favorable voyaging even, the daily allowance of food and drink for each man could be only one ounce of bread and quarter of pint of water The men took the startling situation cheerfully, for the prospect of haven among civilized Dutchmen 1900 leagues away was far ahead of the cer- tainty of butchery by savages or death by shipwreck and starvation roaming about the islands of Oceanica-terra incog. to the worlds navigators at that date. The trip of the Bounty to that region was an acci- dental one and might not be repeated by ship from civilized port in years The British government had sent her out to carry bread plants to the West Indies as an experiment.
 ! Bligh's position among the castaways was peculiar. The mutineers had sent him adrift to get rid of his imperiousness and his irritable temper, and those who fol- lowed in the launch had choice of two evils, or perhaps no choice at all. They were not wanted on shipboard, and could share Bligh's fate and tolerate him as leader or do the next best thing, get clear