It is of no moment for me to recount my endeavours to bring back the offenders to a sense of their duty:  all I could do was by speaking to them in general; but it was to no purpose, for I was kept securely bound and no one except the guard suffered to come near me.

To Mr. Samuel I am indebted for securing my journals and commission with some material ship papers.  Without these I had nothing to certify what I had done, and my honour and character might have been suspected without my possessing a proper document to have defended them.  All this he did with great resolution, though guarded and strictly watched.  He attempted to save the timekeeper, and a box with my surveys, drawings, and remarks for fifteen years past, which were numerous, when he was hurried away, with “Damn your eyes you are well off to get what you have.”

It appeared to me that Christian was some time in doubt whether he should keep the carpenter or his mates; at length he determined on the latter and the carpenter was ordered into the boat.  He was permitted but not without some opposition to take his tool chest.

Much altercation took place among the mutinous crew during the whole business:  some swore “I’ll be damned if he does not find his way home, if he gets anything with him,” (meaning me) and, when the carpenter’s chest was carrying away, “Damn my eyes he will have a vessel built in a month.”  While others laughed at the helpless situation of the boat, being very deep and so little room for those who were in her.  As for Christian he seemed as if meditating destruction on himself and everyone else.

I asked for arms but they laughed at me, and said I was well acquainted with the people among whom I was going, and therefore did not want them; four cutlasses however were thrown into the boat after we were veered astern.

The officers and men being in the boat they only waited for me, of which the master at arms informed Christian, who then said:  “Come, captain Bligh, your officers and men are now in the boat and you must go with them; if you attempt to make the least resistance you will instantly be put to death” and, without further ceremony, with a tribe of armed ruffians about me, I was forced over the side where they untied my hands.  Being in the boat we were veered astern by a rope.  A few pieces of pork were thrown to us, and some clothes, also the cutlasses I have already mentioned; and it was then that the armourer and carpenters called out to me to remember that they had no hand in the transaction.  After having undergone a great deal of ridicule and been kept some time to make sport for these unfeeling wretches we were at length cast adrift in the open ocean.

I had with me in the boat the following persons: