Cyprus mutiny the mutiny in which the mutineers are depicted as birds. Cyprus mutiny The "Cyprus" mutiny took place in 1829 off the British penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia). Convicts seized the brig and sailed her to Canton, China, where they scuttled her and claimed to be castaways from another vessel. On the way, "Cyprus" visited Japan during the height of the period of severe Japanese restrictions on the entry of foreigners, the first Australian ship to do so. The mutineers were eventually captured. Two of them, George James Davis and William Watts, were hanged at Execution Dock,
William Mavor Watts the Holy Scriptures all over the world. There are considerably over two hundred of these languages, not to speak of the different dialects... Swatow, Pwo-karen, Lepcha, Kinika, Nupe, Bullom, Batta, Lifu, Tchuwash, Tukudh, Wuch, Ossetian..." William Mavor Watts William Mavor Watts (1797/98-1874) was an English printer, based in London, who specialised in non-Roman fonts and Bible printing. Watts took over the printing business that his father Richard Watts had established in Crown Court, Temple Bar, London, and developed it further: "Mr Watts made his name well known as a printer who could undertake to set up copy in almost every