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At the beginning of April 1789, HMS Bounty left Tahiti, 15.1. (CARRY, 1p) plants to the West Indies. The ship had been in Tahiti since the previous autumn, and the crew had amused 15.2. (PRONOMINI, 1p) in the sunshine with the local women. But as they ploughed through 15.3. (TYYNIMERI, 1p) they chafed at the restoration of discipline under the captain, William Bligh. By the night of 27 April, his old friend Fletcher Christian had decided to act.

In the early hours of the following morning, Christian and 15.4. (MUUTAMA, 1p) allies secured the upper deck and armed themselves with muskets. Some time after five o’clock, Christian led them to Bligh’s cabin. 15.5. (PREPOSITIO, 1p) his own account, the captain “called 15.6. (NIIN ÄÄNEKKÄÄSTI KUIN, 1p) I could in hopes of assistance”, but the mutineers managed to drag him away. 15.7. (SIIHEN MENNESSÄ, 1p) , the Bounty was in chaos. On the quarterdeck, 15.8. (SURROUND, 1p) mutineers, Bligh shouted for help, 15.9. (URGE, 1p) his shipmates to “knock Christian down”. Amid the general chaos, Christian exhorted the men to back him instead.

15.10. (VASTOIN, 1p) to Christian’s expectation, many of the men were determined to support the captain, not the mutineers, 15.11. (RELATIIVIPRONOMINI, 1p) suggests Bligh’s reputation for hardness is ill deserved. In all, eighteen men 15.12. (LIITTYI BLIGH'HIN, 1p) in the ship’s launch. The carpenter’s mates wanted to go too, but Christian 15.13. (FORBID) it. “Never fear lads,” Bligh said. “I’ll do you 15.14. (OIKEUS, 1p) if ever I reach England.”

Bligh 15.15. (VERBI, 1p) reach England, months later. But the mutineers’ fate was wretched. Many were captured, others killed. Christian was killed on Pitcairn in 1793.

Lähde: Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, April 2016