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The Mutiny of the Bounty
Sir John Barrow
其他書名
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H. M. S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018-07-12
主題History / General
ISBN19865885999781986588591
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PqGouQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋With an introduction by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge. S.C. Burbury, Bishop of Tasmania Prize, December 1927Excerpt from the book:"This act of severity must have been cruelly felt by these poor people, who, without iron or any kind of tools, but such as stones, shells, teeth, and bones supplied them with, must have spent months and probably years in the construction of one of these extraordinary double boats.Such was the inauspicious commencement of our acquaintance with the natives of Otaheite. Their determined hostility and perseverance in an unequal combat could only have arisen from one of two motives--either from an opinion that a ship of such magnitude, as they had never before beheld, could only be come to their coast to take their country from them; or an irresistible temptation to endeavour, at all hazards, to possess themselves of so valuable a prize. Be that as it may, the dread inspired by the effects of the cannon, and perhaps a conviction of the truth of what had been explained to them, that the 'strangers wanted only provisions and water,' had the effect of allaying all jealousy"