Tag: Captain Bligh

Wonder food

Jun 26, 2014

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lauraspinney

in Archaeology, Environment, Evolution, Forensic, History, Journalism

IN April 1789, Lieutenant William Bligh set off from the Pacific island of Tahiti to sail halfway round the world to Jamaica. Twenty-three days into the voyage, his crew mutinied. They set him adrift in the Bounty’s launch, along with 18 men who were loyal to him, and dumped the ship’s cargo overboard. That cargo…