[42] If there were _three_ instruments and _three_ boats, there must have been _one_ for _each_, for the quadrant was just as good as a sextant.--ED. [43] The mistake is here again repeated; it would be absurd to suppose that one boat had both quadrant and sextant. [44] It is not explained with what kind of fuel they performed this distressing operation. [45] Here, again, is another mistake; the number must have been _eleven_ at most, one of the boats having parted before the others reached the island.--ED. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Eventful History Of The Mutiny And Piratical Seizure Of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause And Consequences, by Sir John Barrow