BOUNTY MUTINY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 12028, 21 May 1936, Page 3

BOUNTY MUTINY

RLIGH’S GRANDSON RESIDING IN TARANAKI The mutiny of the Bounty about which many tales have been told, some ofthem probably only partly true, was made very real to the people of Taranaki by the disclosure of the fact that at Inglewood lives a grandson of Captain Bligh, who, with IS companions, made the amazing voyage in an open boat after they had been cast adrift by the mutineers (writes the New Plymouth correspondent of the “Evening Post’’). The grandson is Dr E. S. Nutting, of Inglewood, in whose possession are the historic gourd, cup, bullet and compass used on the voyage. The gourd from which Bligh ate his allowance of bread and water on the voyage in the Bounty’s launch is fashioned from the shell of a cocoanut and on it are faintly penned the words, “The cup I eat my miserable allowance out of.’’ The small cup made from the horn of some animal measured the water, one gill, served to each man three times a day. On the bullet is written. “The bullet, 1-25 of a lb., was the allowance of bread which supported IS men for 48 days served to each person three times a day.” The compass is that with which the Bounty’s launch was steered from Otaheite to Timor, 361 S miles, in 4S days. Besides these historic mementoes. Dr Nutting has a collection of sketches by Captain Bligh. These are artistically and minutely drawn.