Mutiny on the Bounty the Tahitians. Bligh was impatient to be away, but as Richard Hough observes in his account, he "failed to anticipate how his company would react to the severity and austerity of life at sea ... after five dissolute, hedonistic months at Tahiti". The work was done by 1 April 1789, and four days later, after an affectionate farewell from Tynah and his queen, "Bounty" left the harbour. In their "Bounty" histories, both Hough and Alexander maintain that the men were not at a stage close to mutiny, however sorry they were to leave Tahiti. The journal of James Morrison, the
HMS Bounty "Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life by an Old Quarter Master". Beechey wrote a detailed account of the mutiny as recounted to him by the last survivor, Adams. Bechervaise, who described the life of the islanders, says he found the remains of the "Bounty" and took some pieces of wood from it which were turned into souvenirs such as snuff boxes. The details of the voyage of HMAV "Bounty" are very well documented, largely due to the effort of Bligh to maintain an accurate log before, during, and after the actual mutiny. "Bounty"s crew list is also well chronicled, down