Abstract
The King, upon a representation from His Subjects in the West Indies, that the introduction of the Bread Fruit Tree among them would be a Universal good to constitute an article of food…I was therefore directed to sail forthwith … for the Society Islands …And there … to procure of the Natives as many Plants as I could stow on board Ship.… I was to proceed … to St Vincent, one of the Windward Islands, and depositing One Half of my Plants there, I was to go immediately to Jamaica.William BlighCaptain of HMS Bounty, 1789
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