A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty is a classic British naval history text by William Bligh. I sailed from Otaheite on the 4th of April 1789, having on board 1015 fine bread-fruit plants, besides many other valuable fruits of that country, which, with unremitting attention, we had been collecting for three and twenty weeks, and which were now in the highest state of perfection.