Matthew Quintal Matthew Quintal Matthew Quintal (baptised 3 March 1766 as Mathew Quintril, Padstow, Cornwall – 1799, Pitcairn Island) was a Cornish able seaman and mutineer aboard HMS "Bounty". His surname was, in all probability, the result of misspelling the Cornish surname "Quintrell". He was the last of the mutineers to be murdered on Pitcairn Island. He was murdered by Ned Young and John Adams, leaving them the last two men alive on the island. Following the mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the "Bounty" was taken to Tahiti for a few days before being compelled to set sail. Quintal joined Christian and
The Bounty Trilogy The Bounty Trilogy The Bounty Trilogy is a book comprising three novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. It relates events prior to, during and subsequent to the Mutiny on the "Bounty". The three novels, previously published separately, are:— "The Bounty Trilogy" was first published in 1936 by Little, Brown and Company, with a new preface by the authors and included vignette decorations by . This edition used the plates from the original novels and had 903 pages. In 1940 a new edition was published by Little, Brown and Company, with illustrations by N C Wyeth. This edition used