Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Captain Bligh's Second Voyage to the South Sea
William Bligh joined the Royal Navy at an early age. He was only twenty-three when he set sail with Cook on June I sth, 1776, on his third and last voyage. Return ing home after an absence of four years, Bligh became a Lieutenant, and carried out some important surveys for the Admiralty. He fought in the battle off the Dogger Bank in 1 781 and again under Lord Howe in the follow ing year at Gibraltar. In 1787 he proceeded in the Bounty to Tahiti in order to collect the breadfruit.
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