Chapter I: Preface

This perhaps should rather be called a prefatory note, since all the introduction to my book that I deem necessary is to say that in it I have endeavoured to sketch a community for whom I have the highest admiration, the descendants of the mutineers of the _Bounty_, who I maintain are a standing proof of the miraculous power of the Gospel in the regeneration of mankind when unhindered by sacerdotal interference. And in order to make the subject as full as possible, I have taken one typical islander, the Bounty Boy, out of his surroundings into the world, and told his adventures therein with a view of showing how the Christian who is one indeed may fare.

FRANK T. BULLEN.

MELBOURN, CAMBS., _September, 1907_.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I A CHRISTMAS BOUNTY 11

II A WHALE HUNT 20

III C. B.’S CHILDHOOD 32

IV EVIL FROM WITHOUT 46

V ENTERTAINING DEVILS UNAWARE 60

VI C. B.’S DEPARTURE 75

VII C. B. JUSTIFIES HIS POSITION 90

VIII TREACHERY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 105

IX THE GREAT CATCH 120

X A GAM AND A REVENGE 135

XI THE STORY OF A CRIME 150

XII C. B.’S GREAT TEMPTATION 166

XIII C. B.’S NARROWEST ESCAPE 182

XIV A MOMENTOUS PASSAGE 198

XV FAREWELL TO THE SHIP 214

XVI POPULARITY 229

XVII A TROUBLESOME APPRECIATION 244

XVIII A HERO IN SPITE OF HIMSELF 259

XIX C. B.’S AWAKENING 274

XX C. B.’S TASK CONCLUDES 289

XXI MARRIAGE AND DEPARTURE 305

XXII BACK TO PRIMITIVE THINGS 320

XXIII SAVED FROM THE SEA 336

XXIV HOME AT LAST 351