On April 28, 1789, the crew of the HMS "Bounty", returning from Tahiti with a cargo of breadfruit plants, mutinied and set their captain and 17 crew members adrift in a small boat. In a remarkable feat of seamanship, Bligh took the 23-foot boat over 3600 miles, in 41 days, to safety in Indonesia. This is Bligh's own account of the mutiny and his incredible voyage to safety. An Afterword describes the fate of the "Bounty" mutineers.