Relaxation Rewind! The Voyage of The Bounty to the South Sea, by William Bligh, Part 1
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this remastered episode from the wayback, let's take a relaxing trip aboard the good ship Bounty, which maybe you've heard of? It's all breadfruit and bad weather (so far). Sleep ahoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some |
| 0:17.1 | sleep. So find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. |
| 0:25.0 | Take a nice deep breath in. |
| 0:31.0 | Let it out slowly and off we go. |
| 0:37.0 | Tonight I thought we could take a little trip with a voyage to the South Sea undertaken by command of his |
| 0:46.7 | majesty for the purpose of conveying the breadfruit tree to the West Indies. In his majesty's ship, The Bounty, commanded by |
| 0:57.8 | Lieutenant William Bly, including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat, from Tefoa, one in the East Indies, the whole illustrated with charts, |
| 1:20.3 | etc. published by permission of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and printed for |
| 1:27.9 | George Nickle, bookseller to His Majesty, Paul Mall London, 1792. |
| 1:37.0 | Let's begin. |
| 1:40.6 | Advertisement. |
| 1:48.0 | At the time I published the narrative of the mutiny on board the bounty it was my intention that the preceding part of the voyage should be contained in a separate account. |
| 1:55.6 | This method I have since been induced to alter. |
| 2:00.1 | The reason of the narrative appearing first was for the purpose of communicating early information |
| 2:07.0 | concerning an event which had attracted the public notice, and being drawn up in a hasty manner, it required many corrections. |
| 2:18.1 | Some circumstances likewise were omitted and the notation of time used in the narrative, being according to see |
| 2:26.4 | reckoning, in which the days begin and end at noon, must have produced a degree of obscurity and confusion to readers |
| 2:35.9 | accustomed only to the civil mode. And this would have increased as the |
| 2:41.4 | remainder of the voyage on account of the numerous shore |
| 2:45.3 | occurrences at Oda Haiti and elsewhere, could not, with clearness and propriety have been related in any other than the usual manner of reckoning. |
| 2:58.6 | Besides remedying these inconveniences, I have thought a fuller account of our passage from Timor to Europe |
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