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That, Captain Bligh, that is the thing; I am in hell — I am in hell.

Fletcher Christian's reply when Lieutenant Bligh, during the 1789 mutiny on HMS Bounty, reminded him of past kindness. His despair set in motion the voyage to Pitcairn Island whose descendants would found Norfolk Island's modern community in 1856.

Fletcher Christian, Norfolk Island

Source: William Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty (1790)

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