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Bligh Notebook
P. 5 - Preface-28 April 1789

Rough account Lieutenant Wm Bligh's Voyage in the Bounty's Launch from the ship to Tofoa & from thence to Timor.— 28 April 1789 Just before Sun Rise the People mutinied seized me while asleep in my Cabbin tied my Hands behind my back – carried me on Deck in my Shirt – Put 18 of the Crew into the Launch, & me after them and set us a drift– Tofoa bearing NE 10 leags. — Ship steered to the WNW. — Four Cutlasses were thrown into the Boat. —
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