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Title: The chronicles of crime, or The new Newgate calendar. Being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to the present time including a number of curious cases never before published. Embellished with fifty-two engravings, from original drawings by "Phiz" (pseud.)
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Pelham, Camden, pseud Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. illus. cn
Subjects: Crime Criminals
Publisher: London, T. Tegg (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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commanded to enter, no other nourishment being afforded them but about one
hundred and forty pounds of bread, thirty pounds of meat, a gallon and a half
of rum, an equal quantity of wine, and a few gallons of water. A compass
and quadrant were seized by the captain as his unfortunate companions
were entering the boat; and as soon as he had taken his place, the muti-
neers gave three cheers, and stood away, as they said, for Otaheite.
Captain Bligh on taking muster of the remains of his crew left to him,
found that he had in his boat the boatswain, the carpenter, the gunner, the
surgeons-mate, two midshipmen, and one masters-mate, with Mr. Nelson
the botanist, and a few inferior officers. After a short consultation, it was
deemed expedient to put back to the Friendly Islands ; and having reached
the coast of one of them, they landed, in hopes of improving their stock of
provisions. For several days they continued unmolested ; but at length,
on the 30th of April, they were attacked by the natives with such violence.
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The Mutiny of the Bounty
p.322

London. Published by Thomas Tegg. Cheapside Sept¹,1840

THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. 329

that one man was killed, and several wounded. They were, therefore,
compelled immediately to sheer off; and it became now the subject of
inquiry and deliberation as to what should bo their next place of destination.
Otaheite was proposed, as it was supposed that the natives would be
friendly to them ; but the apprehension of falling in with the Bounty
determined them against this course; and with one assent they made up
their minds to shape their course for Timor, a settlement belonging to the
Dutch. To effect this enterprise they were compelled to calculate the distance
with a view to the apportionment of their provisions ; and having disco-
vered that it was near four thousand miles, they agreed that their rations
should not exceed an ounce of bread and a gill of water a day for each
man. Upon this scanty allowance they subsisted without any other nourish-
ment until the 6th of June, when they made the coast of New Holland,
and collected a few shell-fish ;

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