阅读赏金叛变者的尸体

R. Utting
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1789年10月15日,威廉·布莱中尉给英国海军部写了一封谴责信,他在信中描述了叛变的所谓海盗的身体特征,这些海盗把他和其他18人从HMAV Bounty号上扔到一艘7米长的敞船上漂流。布莱和他的船员在东南亚帝汶的Tofua和couang(现在被称为Kupang)之间航行了近4000海里,这被广泛认为是露天船海上生存中最令人印象深刻和鼓舞人心的事件之一。6月14日,他们在海上航行了六周后,虚弱而疲惫地抵达了库邦,“也许从未见过一群更悲惨的人”,他们“可能只存在了一周或一天”值得注意的是,他们中只有一人死亡,不是死于旅途的严酷,而是死于Tofua海岸上岛民的袭击,Tofua是一个小岛,他们在那里短暂地休息了一下(见terierooiterai,第一章)。另外四名成员在库邦和巴达维亚(雅加达)的港口死于疾病。在布莱和他的船员到达港口后的几个星期和几个月里,他非常愤怒,写了一系列的信,都是给那些叛变者的家人的
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Reading the Bodies of the Bounty Mutineers
On 15 October 1789, Lieutenant William Bligh wrote a damning letter to the British Admiralty in which he described the physical characteristics of the mutinous so-called pirates who cast him and 18 others adrift from the HMAV Bounty in a 7-metre open boat. Bligh and his launch crew covered nearly 4,000 nautical miles between Tofua and Coupang (now known as Kupang), in Timor, South-East Asia, in what is widely considered to be one of the most impressive and inspirational episodes in open-boat sea survival. They arrived at Coupang, weak and exhausted after six weeks at sea, on 14 June, ‘perhaps a more miserable set of beings were never seen’ who could ‘not have existed a week or a day longer’.1 Remarkably, only one of their number had died, not from the rigours of the journey but from an attack by Islanders on the shores of Tofua, a small island where they had briefly found respite from their voyage (see Teriierooiterai, Chapter 1). A further four members died of disease in the ports of Coupang and Batavia (Jakarta). In the weeks and months after Bligh and his crew arrived in port, he was alight with indignation and penned a series of letters, both to the families of those mutineers
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