Voyage
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Bligh’S Open Boat
Interesting Relics in New Zealand
* I 'HKOUGH the cinema, books, and news paper articles much prominence has been given in recent months to the Bounty mutiny and Captain Bligh’s subsequent amazing voyage in an open boat to Timor.
The fierce spotlight of publicity has now uncovered the interesting fact that one of Bligh’s grandsons lives at Inglewood, near New Plymouth, in New Zealand.
He is Dr. E. S. Nutting, and in his pos session are the historic gourd, cup, bullet,
and compass used on the epic sea journey after the loyal men had been cast adrift by the mutineers.
The gourd from which Bligh ate his allowance of bread and water on the voya &e in the Bounty's launch is fashioned from the shell of a coconut. On it are faintly penned the words, “The cup I eat my miserable allowance out of.” The small cup made from the horn of some animal measured the water, one gill served to each written^Th^hniiAt ° f n bullet * 3 a]] ' b f e pf a lb - was the wh i cb sup Pp rted 18 three time! ,f er ™? d to each pe^ 30a with which B^ PaSS tha l f rorn Tftf ope^L.boat ste ®f ed Besides Timor ' 3618 mfies. b f to s. lc mementoes. Dr.
Nutting has a collection of sketches by Captain Bligh. These are artistically and minutely drawn.