"... the wreck of the Batavia provides the greatest dramatic tragedy in Australian history, beside which the Mutiny on the Bounty is an anaemic tale."

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MaritimeHistory of Australia
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Thomas Davies Mutch, in a private letter to Henrietta Drake-Brockman (1947); published in the Foreword to Drake-Brockman's Voyage to Discovery (1963)