HAMILTON, George (fl.1790) A Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora. Performed under the Direction of Captain Edwards in the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792. With the Discoveries made in the South-Sea; and the many Distresses experienced by the Crew from Shipwreck and Famine, in a Voyage of Eleven Hundred Miles in open Boats, between Endeavour Straits and the Island of Timor. Berwick and London: W. Phorson and B. Law and Son, 1793.
HAMILTON, George (fl.1790) A Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora. Performed under the Direction of Captain Edwards in the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792. With the Discoveries made in the South-Sea; and the many Distresses experienced by the Crew from Shipwreck and Famine, in a Voyage of Eleven Hundred Miles in open Boats, between Endeavour Straits and the Island of Timor. Berwick and London: W. Phorson and B. Law and Son, 1793. 8 o (199 x 128 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait. (Extreme edge of frontispiece lettering cropped.) Modern green half morocco, marbled boards. RARE FIRST EDITION ON THE BOUNTY MUTINEERS. When William Bligh returned to England in 1790 and news of the mutiny aboard the Bounty finally became known, the Admiralty immediately fitted out the frigate Pandora, Capt. Edward Edwards commanding, to apprehend the mutineers. This account of that voyage is by the ship's surgeon George Hamilton. It is the only full contemporary published account, as Edwards wrote no complete account of the voyage. In Tahiti, Edwards arrested fourteen mutineers and caged them on Pandora's quarterdeck while he sailed from Tonga to New Guinea in search of the remaining mutineers. It is now believed that when passing through the Santa Cruz Group he failed to recognize a distress signal from the survivors of La Pérouse's expedition. He made a number of discoveries including Rotuma and determined the best route to Botany Bay, but he failed to locate Pitcairn Island although he had sailed close to it on his outward passage. While surveying Endeavour Strait in the Great Barrier Reef, the Pandora was wrecked and captain and crew took to the ship's boats with the ten surviving mutineers who had been released from their cages, not by Captain Edwards but by the master-at-arms. After a 1,100-mile voyage in open boats through the Torres Straits they landed at Timor where Bligh himself had landed after being cast off from the Bounty. A ship was arranged for them by the Dutch to carry the mutineers to England where all were tried and three were hanged. Bell H24; Ferguson 151; Hill 766; Kroepelien 507; Sabin 30011.
HAMILTON, George (fl.1790) A Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora. Performed under the Direction of Captain Edwards in the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792. With the Discoveries made in the South-Sea; and the many Distresses experienced by the Crew from Shipwreck and Famine, in a Voyage of Eleven Hundred Miles in open Boats, between Endeavour Straits and the Island of Timor. Berwick and London: W. Phorson and B. Law and Son, 1793.
HAMILTON, George (fl.1790) A Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora. Performed under the Direction of Captain Edwards in the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792. With the Discoveries made in the South-Sea; and the many Distresses experienced by the Crew from Shipwreck and Famine, in a Voyage of Eleven Hundred Miles in open Boats, between Endeavour Straits and the Island of Timor. Berwick and London: W. Phorson and B. Law and Son, 1793. 8 o (199 x 128 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait. (Extreme edge of frontispiece lettering cropped.) Modern green half morocco, marbled boards. RARE FIRST EDITION ON THE BOUNTY MUTINEERS. When William Bligh returned to England in 1790 and news of the mutiny aboard the Bounty finally became known, the Admiralty immediately fitted out the frigate Pandora, Capt. Edward Edwards commanding, to apprehend the mutineers. This account of that voyage is by the ship's surgeon George Hamilton. It is the only full contemporary published account, as Edwards wrote no complete account of the voyage. In Tahiti, Edwards arrested fourteen mutineers and caged them on Pandora's quarterdeck while he sailed from Tonga to New Guinea in search of the remaining mutineers. It is now believed that when passing through the Santa Cruz Group he failed to recognize a distress signal from the survivors of La Pérouse's expedition. He made a number of discoveries including Rotuma and determined the best route to Botany Bay, but he failed to locate Pitcairn Island although he had sailed close to it on his outward passage. While surveying Endeavour Strait in the Great Barrier Reef, the Pandora was wrecked and captain and crew took to the ship's boats with the ten surviving mutineers who had been released from their cages, not by Captain Edwards but by the master-at-arms. After a 1,100-mile voyage in open boats through the Torres Straits they landed at Timor where Bligh himself had landed after being cast off from the Bounty. A ship was arranged for them by the Dutch to carry the mutineers to England where all were tried and three were hanged. Bell H24; Ferguson 151; Hill 766; Kroepelien 507; Sabin 30011.
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