Word: breadfruit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Cook at 22. On Cook's last voyage he acquitted himself well when that great explorer was killed by savages, had gained considerable reputation for his courage and swift decisions by 1787, when he was given command of the Bounty for her ill-fated voyage transporting breadfruit trees from the South Seas to the West Indies. Although Dr. Mackaness roundly insists that Bligh was considerate of his men. quotes heretofore unpublished material to prove it, trouble soon broke out among officers and crew. Bligh's only remedy was a traditional dozen lashes for each offender. Little...
...December 1787, H. M. S. Bounty, a British armed transport commanded by a brutal martinet named William Bligh, set sail from Spithead, England, for Tahiti, from which it was to take breadfruit plants to the West Indies. After leaving Tahiti two-thirds of the crew, led by the first officer, mutinied and abandoned Bligh and 18 of his supporters in a small boat equipped with oars and sail. Bligh and his companions won through to Kupang after 43 nightmarish days. Meantime the mutineers returned to Tahiti, whence nine of them set out again with a Tahitian princess for the first...
...Bounty's voyage, as planned, looked almost like a two-year pleasure trip: she was to call at Tahiti by way of Cape Horn, take on a supply of breadfruit trees for the West Indies, and come home again...
...spied the attacking force coming out of the steamy jungle. He jerked off the telephone receiver, screamed "Help! Help!" to the operator at Wawa Junction on the narrow gauge railroad that runs to the coast. Then he fled. Yelling "Viva Sandino," the bandits fell savagely upon Logtown. Under a breadfruit tree they killed John Phelps, timber inspector for Standard Fruit's logging interests. They cut his body to bits. They threw Joseph Luther Pennington, another Standard Fruit Lumberman, into a river, peppered him to death with shots. Back in the logging camp they woke up Ripley Davis, planter, to murder...