Captain William Bligh's Governorship of New South Wales is mentioned as the motive for Aubrey's mission, though Aubrey does not reach New South Wales in this novel, nor meet Captain Bligh in any part of the story.
42.
Omai returned to Huahine in August 1777 and was settled wth a European-style house, furniture, vineyard and two Captain Bligh was told Omai had died about two and a half years after Cook's departure in November 1777.
43.
In the immediate wake of the mutiny, all but four of the loyal crew joined Captain Bligh in the long boat for the voyage to Timor, and eventually made it safely back to England, unless otherwise noted in the table below.
44.
No movie star of the modern era has had a greater diversity of extravagant, plum roles than Anthony Hopkins _ from C . S . Lewis to Hannibal Lecter, Richard the Lion-Hearted to Richard Nixon, Captain Bligh to Pablo Picasso.
45.
Presented as an account of the " real causes and circumstances of that Unhappy Transaction ", the " Appendix " was said by the press to " palliate the behaviour of Christian and the Mutineers, and to criminate Captain Bligh ".
46.
He became known as an uncompromising, hard-charging perfectionist " and a " 300-decibel screamer, a modern-day Captain Bligh with a megaphone and walkie-talkie, swooping down into people's faces on a 162ft crane ".
47.
Captain Bligh explains that this name was an homage to his eldest daughter Teriinavahoroa, who had died of tuberculosis, " an illness that made her cough ( " mare " ) a lot, especially at night ( " pM " ) ".
48.
During the Mutiny on the " Bounty " on 28 April 1789, Ellison was standing his watch as the ship's wheelsman, which gave him a vantage point to view the personal confrontation between Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian at the heart of the mutiny.
49.
On the following page the nursery rhyme Rub-a-dub-dub is portrayed with Charles Laughton ( as Captain Bligh ), Spencer Tracy ( as Manuel Fidello from " Captains Courageous " and is dressed as Little Lord Fauntleroy, which he also starred in ).
50.
When Bligh ordered a change of course for " Sinclair ", Short responded by ordering first officer John Putland to fire warning shots at " Sinclair ", which carried Putland's wife, Mary, and his father-in-law, Captain Bligh.
