BOUNTY MUTINY

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 6

BOUNTY MUTINY

GRANDSON OF BLIGH

LIVING |N TARANAKI

' (By Telegraph.) '' (Special to the "Evening" post.")'. NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. '■ The' mutiny of; the' Bounty; abput which many romantic tales have been woven, some of them probably: departing considerably from the truth, was made'very real to the people* of Tafa» naki yesterday.by the disclosure of the fact that at Inglewood lives a grandson of Captain Blighj. who,with.eighteen companions made the amazing voyage in" 'an open boat after they had been cast adrift, by the mutineers. Ttie 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 oh the voyage in the. Bounty's launch' is fashioned from the shell of a. coconut 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'.Vwas the allowance of bread which .supported 18 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, 3618 miles, in 48 days. Besides these historic, mementoes, Dr. Nutting has a collection of sketches by Captain Bligh. These are artistically '■ and' minutely drawn. •'■ '■".-'. .-.-'■".- ' '•;