9/27/2023 0 Comments Mounty bounty![]() The islanders speak a dialect that is a hybrid of Tahitian and eighteenth-century English. Living on a 1.75 square mile volcanic speck in the South Pacific that is surely one of the most isolated places on Earth, the contemporary Pitcairn Islanders still bear the surnames of the eighteenth century mutineers (Tom Christian, for example, is the great-great-great-grandson of Fletcher). What has also helped to perpetuate the romantic fascination with the mutiny is the existence of a small community on Pitcairn Island directly descended from the mutineers and their Tahitian wives. Set in the paradisiacal islands of the South Seas, the mutiny involved a host of colorful characters, including the tyrannical Captain Bligh, the aristocratic Fletcher Christian (a distant relation of William Wordsworth's), numerous uninhibited Tahitian women, and a pack of sailors made up of cockney orphans and ruffian adverturers. The mutiny has generated five films (who can think of Fletcher Christian without picturing Marlon Brando?) as well as countless books (including a historical novel by Mark Twain, The Great Revolution in Pitcairn). ![]() It is not surprising that the most famous of all mutinies, that of the British HMS Bounty, has become ideal fodder for popular history and legend. Courtesy of the Pitcairn Island Web site. Source: Ray and Eileen Young, New Zealand residents descended from Midshipmen Edward Young of the Bounty. – I'm going out yonder for red guavas.įoot yawly come yah? – Why did you come here? – I'm going down to Father's place tomorrow. HMS Bounty Phrases in the Pitcairnese Dialect ![]() Infoplease Staff April 28 marks the anniversary of the world's most famous mutiny by Borgna Brunner
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