@kork75 8 October 2020 more from that month

Oh, Dear...

Fletcher Christian was not the kind of Englishman who came from the sea to impose his rule, killing natives like a crazed shark. Yet Tahitians killed him with the violence he reserved for sharks onshore and for revenge that did not even concern him directly. After a long escape in the Pacific, the young gentleman who had snatched the Bounty from Captain William Bligh set fire to the vessel and took refuge with his men on the deserted island of Pitcairn, south-east of the Tuamotu.

https://pixabay.com/it/illustrations/nero-pearl-caraibi-maledizione-1602436/ They're some of the drunken mutineers had savagely whipped their Tahitian travelling companions and tied them up, their wounds sprinkled with salt. It was after this act of absurd sadism that the Tahitians stole muskets and accepted and sowed the fields. The sailor Wiliams fell first, then Christian, then the gunner Mills and the sailor Martin, finally Brown the gardener.

https://pixabay.com/it/photos/haiti-panorama-montagne-piante-85873/ Williams and Christian did not have time to understand what was happening. The last words of this Englishman who went down in history for taking possession of a useless vessel during an insignificant mission on the most remote seas were: "Oh, Dear...". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Christian **By Kork75!**