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Title: Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora
Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the
South Seas, 1790-1791

Author: Edward Edwards
George Hamilton

Commentator: Basil Thomson

Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22834]

Language: English

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VOYAGE OF

H.M.S. 'PANDORA'

DESPATCHED TO ARREST THE MUTINEERS OF
THE 'BOUNTY' IN THE SOUTH SEAS, 1790-91

BEING THE NARRATIVES OF

CAPTAIN EDWARD EDWARDS, R.N.

THE COMMANDER

AND

GEORGE HAMILTON

THE SURGEON

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY

BASIL THOMSON

LONDON
FRANCIS EDWARDS
83 HIGH STREET, MARYLEBONE
1915

CONTENTS
PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1
CAPTAIN EDWARDS' REPORTS 27
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD 91
VOYAGE FROM OTAHEITE TO ANAMOOKA 121
VOYAGE FROM ANAMOOKA, WITH AN ACCOUNT
OF THE LOSS OF THE _PANDORA_ 136
VOYAGE FROM THE WRECK TO THE ISLAND OF TIMOR 147
OCCURRENCES AT COUPANG; VOYAGE TO BATAVIA,
ETC.; ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND 160
INDEX 173
MAP OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, SHOWING THE COURSE
FOLLOWED BY H.M.S. _PANDORA_ IN 1791

INTRODUCTION

NONE of the minor incidents in our naval history has inspired so many
writers as the Mutiny of the _Bounty_. Histories, biographies and
romances, from Bligh's narrative in 1790 to Mr. Becke's "Mutineers" in
1898, have been founded upon it; Byron took it for the theme of the least
happy of his dramatic poems; and all these, not because the mutiny left
any mark upon history, but because it ranks first among the stories of
the sea, instinct with the living elements of romance, of primal passion
and of tragedy--all moving to a happy ending in the Arcadia of P