... * Bounty = originated. at least in part, from the Society’s offer of a prize for the successful transplanting of the bread fruit tree to the West Indies. Capt. Bligh, on his second expedition in the *“Providence.” succeeded in transplanting not only ...

... expedition in the Bounty was undertaken In 1789 In consequence of the Society’s offer of a prize for the Introduction of the bread fruit tree Into the West Indies. These are things that should be remembered when the Society’s history considered. By the very name ...

... than any long-term brutality sparked off the mutiny Bligh set in the Bounty with the of collecting specimens the TahlUan bread fruit tree These were to taken to the West Indies in the hope that this useful vegetable would there become established storms prevented ...