Produced by Suzanne Lybarger and the booksmiths at http://www.eBookForge.net VOYAGE OF H.M.S. 'PANDORA' DESPATCHED TO ARREST THE MUTINEERS OF THE 'BOUNTY' IN THE SOUTH SEAS, 1790-91 BEING THE NARRATIVES OF CAPTAIN EDWARD EDWARDS, R.N. THE COMMANDER AND GEORGE HAMILTON THE SURGEON WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY BASIL THOMSON LONDON FRANCIS EDWARDS 83 HIGH STREET, MARYLEBONE 1915 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 CAPTAIN EDWARDS' REPORTS 27 A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD 91 VOYAGE FROM OTAHEITE TO ANAMOOKA 121 VOYAGE FROM ANAMOOKA, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF THE _PANDORA_ 136 VOYAGE FROM THE WRECK TO THE ISLAND OF TIMOR 147 OCCURRENCES AT COUPANG; VOYAGE TO BATAVIA, ETC.; ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND 160 INDEX 173 MAP OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, SHOWING THE COURSE FOLLOWED BY H.M.S. _PANDORA_ IN 1791 INTRODUCTION NONE of the minor incidents in our naval history has inspired so many writers as the Mutiny of the _Bounty_. Histories, biographies and romances, from Bligh's narrative in 1790 to Mr. Becke's "Mutineers" in 1898, have been founded upon it; Byron took it for the theme of the least happy of his dramatic poems; and all these, not because the mutiny left any mark upon history, but because it ranks first among the stories of the sea, instinct with the living elements of romance, of primal passion and of tragedy--all moving to a happy ending in the Arcadia of Pitcairn Island. And yet, while every incident in the moving story, even to the evidence in the famous court-martial, has been discussed over and over again, there has been lying in the Record Office for more than a century an autograph manuscript, written by one of the principal actors in the drama, which no one has thought it worth while to print.