"Men did not desert because they hated their commanders, or salt pork, or weevily biscuits; they deserted for love."

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John Beaglehole, Captain Cook and Captain Bligh, The Dr W. E. Collins Lecture delivered at the University on 3 August 1967 (The Victoria University of Wellington, 1967), p. 19