do it.
We cannot risk going ashore again.
What are we going to do, sir?
Well, we shall just have
to try and reach Coupang.
Without charts?
Well, I shall have to navigate
from memory, Mr Fryer.
It'll take us close to the most
savage islands in these waters.
The Fiji islands where cannibalism
is perfected almost to a science.
And from there,
my friends, God willing,
we shall proceed onward
to the Great Barrier Reef itself.
Then
to the coast of New Holland
and from there across
the Timor Sea to Coupang.
Now it will take us
at least two months
and we have provisions or more
enough to last us one week.
So that is the situation,
gentlemen. Plain and simple.
Well, we'll just have to make
the best of it. Won't we sir?
Make the best of it, Smith?
Yes, but will you?
That's what I ask myself.
Will you make the best of it?
Do you hear me? Are you prepared
to make the best of it? All of you?
Because all I can promise you, lads,
is relentless pain and hardship.
Now, if you're prepared
to make do and make sacrifices
and furthermore
are willing to swear by it,
I promise you our chances
of survival are fair.
You hear me?
You all say, aye.
Aye.
Good.
Mr Fryer, make way.
Prepare to make way.
Make way.
Fletcher!
Fletcher!
In the box are gifts
for the people of Tahiti.
We did not expect you back. We have
already given you everything.
We only want our women. And perhaps
some men to help me sail the ship.
Where's Captain Bligh?
Why doesn't he come himself?
He's no longer with us.
I've taken the ship.
He's dead.
No. No, he's not dead. We set him
adrift with some of the crew.
You shame me by coming here.
You shame me.
King George
will send many ships
with many guns to punish us
for what you have done.
We can give you nothing.
Go now.
Some of the men would like to remain
here and wait for the next ship.
Er, they wanted to go with Bligh
but there was no room in his boat.
They can stay, but not you.
Take your gifts and go.
No!
Should she not be allowed
to choose for herself, sir?
Ah.
Where will you take her?
I don't know. Somewhere
the British ships won't find us.
Take her. You will have
all the men you need. Go now.
Goodbye, Peter.
Good luck, sir.
I think you'll need it more than I.
Thank you.
I'm not coming, Fletcher.
I've thought it out. And I'm staying here.
Let's go.
I think I'll stay too, sir.
Get out. Let's go.
Come on lads.
They'll hang you.
I might just have a lucky face.
Here they come. Get it. Good one.
Loads of them.
They're all over the place.
Here we go. There we go. Go on.
Sod it. Who loaded these things?
Come on, man.
Quick. Yeah!
The only one I wholly trust is Adams.
I go everywhere
with a loaded pistol.
And where we are to head beyond
the reach of justice, I know not.
Thursday June 11th.
In the afternoon we saw gannets
and many other birds.
And at sunset
we caught one in our sail.
Which I reserved
for our dinner next day.
Who shall have this?
Smith.
And who shall have this?
Mr Fryer.
What about the rest of us?
You just have to wait your turn,
Purcell, like everyone else.
Some of us
haven't had nothing in days.
That's enough, Purcell.
Well, it's not enough for me, sir!
I'll tell you something.
The officers
and their lot get everything.
Shut your mouth, Purcell.
I'm as much a man
as you are, sir.
What did you say?
I said
I'm as much a man as you are!
Are you indeed?
I'm not so certain about that.
Sit down, damn you!
I'll knock you on the head with it.
Sit down! Sit down!
Mr Cole,
give this man my share of food.
I am committed
to a desperate enterprise.
I have said farewell
to everything I've been accustomed
to regard as indispensable.
But I suppose
I have found freedom.
So you've found
freedom, have you?
Freedom, retribution,
that's what you want.
Isn't that
why you gave him your compass?
I wanted to give him a chance.
A chance to survive
so he'll come after us again.
How can he