Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you

get some sleep.

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Now, let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly. and off we go.

In honor of our 150th episode,

I thought we could take a little trip with a voyage to the South Sea

undertaken by command of his majesty for the commanded by 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 of the friendly islands, to

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