"I find that two months after I left Tahiti in the ‘Bounty’, Christian returned in her to the great astonishment of the natives. Doubting that things had gone well with me the first questions they asked were: ‘Where is Bry?’ ‘He is gone,’ he replied, ‘to England’. ‘In what ship?’ asked the natives. ‘In Toote’s ship.’"
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William Bligh, Logbook of HMS Providence (9 April 1792); reported in Ida Lee, Captain Bligh’s Second Voyage to the South Sea (London: Longman’s, Green and Co., 1920), p. 43
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