Steven Shaw’s Reviews > After the Bounty: A Sailor's Account of the Mutiny, and Life in the South Seas > Status Update

"[The priests] are the only people who have any knowledge, and it is their business to keep the lower classes in ignorance." (171) "Don't we see some die, and some born every day, the rivers run to the sea, the trees rot, and the rocks fall from the mountains? All this has continued from the beginning of the world, and yet they are not diminished." (167, 168)

“The berries and leaves being gathered, several hands begin and nip them till they emit a drop of yellow juice… the juice put into a shell…fibers of the moo’oo is then procured to dip in the paint…In this manner they paint it in many fanciful forms.” “Part Two: An account of the Island of Tahiti and the Customs of the Islanders”, though very interesting for the anthropologist, is significantly more laborious a read.

"...the taste is not like anything that I recollect in Europe, America, or India."

“—but all the officers were saved”

Although Morrison’s account of the actual voyage, and subsequent mutiny are fairly cursory, dwelling primarily on provisions and other supplies, his observations of Tubaian, Tahitian, and Tongan cultural differences make for an interesting anthropological study.