Posted by Adam Quinan on June 01, 2006 at 03:56:46 from 72.136.51.111 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Long Island; was Re: Peel Island posted by Peter Roche on June 01, 2006 at 00:22:45:
Her husbamd John Christian Curwen planted thousands of larch trees, I wonder if they were the woods that they had to trek through to reach Swallowdale.
As for stories of Fletcher Christian's return, I find the probability to be extremely low. Interestingly, there is a strong Manx connection with the Bounty, Bligh's wife was Manx, Fletcher Christian's family were originally Manx though they moved to Cumberland long before he was born. Peter Heywood, a Manx midshipman aboard Bounty who Bligh accused of bing a mutineer was sentenced to death, reprieved and went on to become a Navy captain and died just before being promoted to admiral.