Mutiny in the Bounty and Story of the Pitcairn Islanders (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... out of the Spanish frigate Esmemlda, of 40 guns, from under the batteries of Callao; and during a severe conflict with a Spanish gun brig, near Arauco, a fortress in Chili. In the latter encounter, Mr. Nobbs was in command of a craft, which sustained a loss, in killed and wounded, of 48 men out of 64, and was taken prisoner with the survivors, by the troops of the adventurous robber, General Benevideis. The 16 captives were all shot with the exception of Lieutenant Nobbs, and three English seamen: These four saw their fellow prisoners led out from time to time, and heard the reports of the muskets that disposed of them. Ever afterwards, he retained a vivid memory of that dreadful fusillade: Having remained for three weeks under sentence of death, he and his countrymen were unexpectedly exchanged for four officers attached to Benevideis' army. Mr. Nobbs then left the Chilian Service; went to Naples in 1822; in his passage from that city to Messina, in a Neapolitan ship, she foundered off the Lipari Islands; and, with the loss of everything, he reached Messina in one of the ship's boats. In May, 1823, he returned to London, in the Crescent; and in the same year he sailed to Sierra Ijpouo, as chief Mate of the Gambia--but of 19 persons who went out in that vessel none but the Captain, Mr. Nobbs, and two men of colour, lived to return. In June, 1824, he again went But long prior to the ordination of.Mr. Nobbs, "father Adams" died (29th March, 1829), aged 65; and "his end was peace." He had persevered to the last in the good cause he had undertaken nearly thirty years before; and his deeds live after him; having left a name that is cherished with a reverence far beyond the bounds of his tiny isle. And if in early life he broke the laws of his...