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I am grateful to Laurence and Judy Webster, Captain Gerry Christian and Dorothy Wickenden for providing good omens for the voyage ahead.
 
On the domestic front, I am indebted to Linda Baker and John and Belinda Knight for their unwavering support. To George Butler and Smokey, Joanna Alexander and Ron Has-kins, and my mother, Elizabeth Kirby, I am grateful for listening to
The Bounty
over the years. I am, as always, indebted to my friend Laura Slatkin.
Finally, I acknowledge an enormous debt of gratitude to Clare Ferraro, to my editors, Wendy Wolf at Viking Penguin and Arabella Pike at HarperCollins UK, and to the many long-suffering people responsible for production; to Bruce Giffords, who oversaw the copy-editing, and to Trent Duffy; to Carla Bolte for design; to Cliff Corcoran; and to Cathie Arrington for zealous picture hunting. I am indebted to Randy Hartwell for his bibliographic work.
And I am grateful too, again, to Anthony Sheil, now my friend and agent of many years.
INDEX
Adams, John (Alexander Smith)
 
Beechey’s interview with
 
Belcher’s interview with
 
death of
 
flogging of
 
Folger’s talk with
 
mutiny recalled by
 
Adams, Jonathan
 
Admiralty
 
Bligh out of favor with
 
Bligh’s wages disputed by
 
Bounty
commissioned by
 
breadfruit missions and
 
Edwards’s official report to
 
Hector
visited by
 
news of Pitcairn’s mutineers and- 51
 
Nore mutiny and
 
Adventure Bay, Tasmania
 
“Adventures of Christian the Mutineer” (Coleridge)
 
Aitken, George
 
Aitutaki (Whytootackee)
 
Alarm
 
Alcide
 
Alfred
 
American War of Independence
 
Anamooka (Nomuka)
 
Anson, Lord
 
antislavery movement
 
Antrobus, Reverend
 
Ari’i Rahi (Tahitian)
 
Armstrong, George
 
Articles of War, British
 
Article XIX of
 
Ascension Island
 
Ashurst, William
 
Assistant
 
Atafu (Duke of York Island)
 
Atholl, Duke of
 
Atkinson, John
 
Austen, Jane
 
Australia (New Holland)
 
See also
New Holland
 
Avarau (Palmerston Island)
 
 
 
Balfour, Colonel
 
Bali, Strait of
 
Banks, Joseph
 
background of
 
Bligh’s correspondence with
 
Bligh’s promotion and
 
breadfruit venture and
 
in Cook’s first expedition
 
Banks, Joseph (
cont.
)
 
correspondence and research of
 
death of
 
Morrison’s “Journal” and
 
news of
Bounty
mutiny and
 
as patron of Bligh
 
second breadfruit mission and
 
Tahiti visited by
 
warrant officers and
 
Barbary States
 
Barney, Stephen
 
Barrington, Samuel
 
Barrow, John
 
Bastille
 
Batavia, Java
 
Bayne, Lieutenant
 
Bazely, John
 
Beardsworth, John
 
Beaufort, Francis
 
Bedford
 
Bedford, Grosvenor Charles
 
Beechey, Frederick Adams’s interview with
 
Belcher, Diana
 
Belcher, Edward
 
Adams interviewed by
 
Peter Heywood and
 
Bell, Edward
 
Bellerophon
 
Bertie, Albemarle
 
Bertie, Emma Heywood
 
Betham, Elizabeth,
see
Bligh, Elizabeth Betham
 
Betham, Richard
 
Bethia
 
Bethlem “Bedlam” Hospital
 
“Biography of Peter Heywood, Esq.,” 400
 
Birket (servant)
 
Blackstone’s Commentaries
 
Blenheim
 
Bligh, Elizabeth Betham
 
Bligh’s correspondence with
 
death of
 
marriage of
 
Bligh, Francis
 
Bligh, Jane Pearce
 
Bligh, Richard Rodney
 
Bligh, William
 
Admiralty’s coolness to
 
appointed
Bounty
commander
 
background of
 
Banks as patron of Banks’s correspondence with- 71
Bounty
logs of
 
Campbell’s correspondence with,
 
73
 
at Camperdown
 
Cape of Good Hope decision of
 
Christian’s relationship with
 
command style of
 
in Cook’s third expedition
 
at Copenhagen
 
courts-martial of
 
death of
 
deserters and
 
Edward Christian’s report rebutted by
 
finances of
 
floggings ordered by
 
Fryer’s conflicts with
 
as governor of New South Wales
 
health of
 
Heywood and
 
Heywood family and
 
homeward voyage of,
see
Bligh, William, homeward voyage of
 
Joseph Christian and
 
London home of
 
marriage of
 
mercantile employment of
 
missing coconuts incident and
 
monument to
 
on Morrison’s “Journal,” 337
 
mutiny and
 
Narrative
of
 
as national hero
 
naval career of
 
Nelson’s commendation of
 
Nore mutiny and
 
officers vs.
 
Pitcairn’s Island news and
 
promoted to post-captain
 
Purcell’s confrontations with
 
reputation of
 
Rum Corps court-martial and
 
in second breadfruit mission,
see
Bligh, William, second breadfruit voyage of
 
Tahiti sojourns of
 
Tynah and
 
Young and
 
Bligh, William, homeward voyage of- 64
 
Anamooka sojourn in
 
arrival in England
 
Batavia leg of
 
Bligh-Christian conflict in- 31
 
Bligh-crew conflicts in
 
Bligh-Fryer conflicts in
 
Bligh-Mrs. Bligh correspondence in
 
Bligh’s personal log in- 53
 
on
Bounty’
s launch
 
Coupang sojourn in
 
deaths in
 
financial considerations in

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