The group destroyed the Bounty, to avoid detection by passing ships, and settled into their own paradise. After months of exploration, they found Pitcairn Island, which had no people but an abundance of coconuts, breadfruit, and other useful crops. Twelve Polynesian women, six Polynesian men, and one infant joined them. Mutiny was, after all, a capital offense. An expedition was launched to punish the mutineers, and in due time fourteen of them were captured and paid the penalty under British law.īut nine of the mutineers had taken the Bounty and set out to find a place where they could hide. Captain Bligh, in an almost miraculous fashion, survived the ordeal, was rescued, and eventually arrived home in London to tell his story. The result was a mutiny on the Bounty, and the sailors placed Captain Bligh and a few loyal men adrift on the open seas a small boat. They had formed strong attachments for the native girls, and the climate and the ease of the South Sea island life were much to their liking. When the special task was completed, however, and the order came to embark again, the sailors rebelled. After ten months of voyage, the Bounty arrived safely at its destination, and for six months, the officers and the crew gave themselves to the duties placed upon them by their government. The idea was that those on board would spend some time among the islands, transplanting fruit-bearing and food-bearing trees, and doing other things to make some of the islands more habitable. The Bounty was a British ship that set sail from England in 1787, bound for the South Seas. Have you ever heard the story, "the rest of the story?" And perhaps no story illustrates this truth more than the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty. Nothing can have a greater impact on human history, on this world, and upon individual's lives than the Word of God, as God's Spirit uses it to witness the truth of Jesus Christ to the hearts of people one at a time.
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