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Fletcher Christian, Acting LieutenantJohn Mills, Gunner’s MateCharles Churchill, Master-at-ArmsWilliam Brown, GardenerThomas Burkitt}Matthew Quintal}John Sumner}John Millward}William McCoy}Henry Hillbrandt} Able SeamenAlexander Smith}John Williams}Thomas Ellison}Isaac Martin}Richard Skinner}Matthew Thompson}

Those in the Bounty with, but not of, Christian’s party, were:—

Edward Young}George Stewart} MidshipmenJames Morrison, Boatswain’s MateJoseph Coleman, ArmourerCharles Norman, Carpenter’s MateThomas McIntosh, Carpenter’s CrewWilliam Muspratt, Able Seaman

Also Michael Byrne, the half-blind seaman, and myself. William Muspratt had, for a moment, pretended to be of the mutineers’ party and had accepted a musket offered to him by Churchill. He had overheard Fryer say that he hoped to form a party to retake the vessel, and I am certain he had taken the musket for no other reason than to assist Fryer. When he saw that the matter was hopeless, he immediately laid aside his arms. Coleman, Norman, and McIntosh had been prevented from going in the launch because the mutineers had need of their services as artificers. Smiths and carpenters can no more be dispensed with on a ship at sea than can seamen themselves.