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...suitable home any more. But the Navy could take them somewhere else. The native leaders looked over several other islands and finally chose a mile-long speck called Kili, 500 miles from their original home. There was no lagoon but there was plenty of water, much breadfruit and many coconuts, more than on Rongerik, more even than on loved and unforgotten Bikini. Last week the little band of atomic exiles, now numbering 181, were settled on Kili, making the best of things and hoping never to have to move again...
...Americans get a laugh out of the gony bird for a while. Then he is a plain nuisance. Frigate birds are scoundrels who make a living by snatching food out of other birds' beaks. The sooty tern lays its eggs on the ends of broken limbs of the breadfruit tree. On one island there is a lone rooster. His morning crowing to high heaven wakes up the whole island-that is how big this atoll is. He makes the farm boys homesick...
...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 quotes heretofore unpublished material to prove it, trouble soon broke out among officers and crew.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...