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“What a man he is, Ledward,” he said. “It comforted me to see him in a passion again. We’ll fetch Timor. I did him a great injustice ever to doubt it.”

I had precisely the same feeling, and I thanked God, inwardly, that Bligh and no other was in command of the Bounty’s launch.

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We were astir before daylight, greatly refreshed by six or seven hours of sleep. Mr. Bligh awoke in the best of humours, intending to embark immediately, but was irritated when he found that Lamb was too ill to go into the launch.

“What ails the fellow, Mr. Ledward?” he asked, looking down at the man with an expression of disgust.

Lamb was doubled up with cramps from his gorge of the night before; there was no doubting the pain he suffered. I was tempted to let Bligh know the truth of the matter, for my impatience with this worse than useless fellow was equal to his own. I refrained, however, and was about to purge him when he was seized with a violent flux. Half an hour later he was carried into the boat and we proceeded on our way.