Much of the internal conflicts among the earliest settlers was related to the fact that the Bounty’s decision to sail was made on the spur of the moment in the middle of the night. Many of the Tahitian “brides” were young women who happened to be visiting their boyfriends aboard ship that night. Imagine a community where most of the women are ticked off because they went aboard for an overnighter and woke up in the middle of the ocean headed for arts unknown. Not a happy beginning.
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