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Bounty entering Matavai Bay
Captain Bligh arriving in Tahiti with
the seeds of a mutiny, October 26, 1788
Sunday, October 26, 1788, Captain
William H. Bligh sailed H.M.S. Bounty into Matavai Bay, Tahiti.
Ten Months out of England, having
sailed 27,086 nautical miles, the Bounty and her weary crew
arrived in paradise as, from the black sand beaches, hundreds
of Tahitians came out to greet them, their distinctive crab-claw
sails gracing a variety of canoes, their beautiful wahines
actually climbing into the rigging to be with the sailors.
Some six months after this landfall,
the infamous mutiny would take place. A fatigued crew, a loving,
promiscuous people, and a dominating captain: the stuff of
which legends - and nautical history - are made.
22 x 30 in. lithograph - 275 edition
(remarques available)
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