A Description of Pitcairns Island And Its Inhabitants
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It is indeed a common observation in the service, that officers who have risen from before the mast are generally the greatest tyrants. * It was * Some few captains were in the habit of turning over a delinquen* to be tried by ibeir meaamates, and wijea found gtiiUy it invariablj THE king's warrant. 233 Bligh's misfortune not to have been educated in the cockpit of a man of war, among young gentlemen, which is to the navy what a public ' school is to those who are to move in civil society. What... painful sufferings to the individual, and how much misery to an affectionate family might have been spared, had Bhgh, instead of suppressing, only suf- fered the passage to stand as originally written in his journal! The remarks of young Heywood above recited were received and transmitted by his sister Nessy in a letter to the Earl of Chatham, then first lord of the Admiralty, of which the following is a copy : — " Great Russell-Street, Uth Oct, 1792. " My Lord, "To^a nobleman of your lordship's known hu- manity and excellence of heart I dare hope that the mifortunate cannot plead in vain.
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