The weather is wet and stormy from…
May 1789 CE
When the sun appears, Bligh notes in his daily journal that it "gave us as much pleasure as a winter's day in England".
Bligh endeavors to continue his journal throughout the voyage, observing, sketching, and charting as they make their way west.
To keep up morale, he tells stories of his prior experiences at sea, gets the men singing, and occasionally says prayers.
The launch makes the first passage by Europeans through the Fiji Islands, but they dare not stop because of the islanders' reputation for cannibalism.
Bligh records on May 17, that "our situation was miserable; always wet, and suffering extreme cold ... without the least shelter from the weather".
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