A compendium of Bounty icons join forces in this illustration and again, as Dickens would have it, ‘its victims (here represented by the solitary youth Tom Ellison) repair down the dark highway . . . ’ and at the end waits the angel of death – but in this interpretation it is of re-birth, of emergence, of travelling up into the light. In his bag are the few belongings Ellison is reluctant to leave behind. Such was the unbowed spirit of the mutineers before their execution. Faintly and beneath the rising spectre lurks a far more sinister creature... and for a moment it bars the way – particularly for those whose spirits cannot fly!