refuse...
...and you have no authority.
I haven't?! I'll show you authority.
Lay all hands aft! All hands aft!
Very good, sir.
Company, attend!
Mr. Christian, step forward.
"If any officer or other person
in the fleet...
...shall disobey any lawful command...
...of any of his superior officers,
every such person...
...being convicted of such offense
shall suffer death...
...or other punishment
as shall be inflicted on him...
...by the sentence of a court-martial."
Mr. Christian, you will sign this book.
Mr. Bligh...
...the ship's company will bear witness
that I sign in obedience to your orders.
But remember, sir, I shall demand
a court of inquiry in England.
You mutinous dog.
- Retract that, sir.
- I will repeat it. You're a mutinous dog.
- Mr. Christian.
- Land ho, sir!
Furl away!
MAN:
There she waits, lads!
- What is it, Mr. Fryer?
- Tahiti, you fool.
Oh.
So you'll face me
with a court of inquiry?
We're a long way from England
and what can happen on this ship...
...before we get there
may surprise even you.
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[SPEAKS TAHITIAN]
Milk! It's milk!
Captain, they got cows
here that lays eggs. What a place.
Would you help me up, sir?
I'd like to see the island.
BACCHUS:
What for? All islands are alike.
That's a singularly stupid observation,
sir, and grossly unscientific.
Well, science is one thing
and experience is another.
- See one island, you've seen them all.
- Fiddlesticks.
Well, I'm to be first ashore.
Captain's orders, to begin my dictionary.
I'll get my trade goods.
We can go ashore together.
All right, then.
- I know that man.
- Who is he?
A friend of Captain Cook's
when I was sailing master.
Hitihiti, chief of the island,
priest of the temple. Pipe him aboard.
- Mr. Fryer, dress ship.
- Very good, sir. Dress ship!
[PIPE WHISTLING]
[SPEAKING TAHITIAN]
Bligh.
- Bligh.
- Hitihiti.
[SPEAKING TAHITIAN]
- Bligh, you got fat.
- Oh, well, it is 10 years...
...since we sailed together
with Captain Cook.
[SPEAKS TAHITIAN]
- I beg your pardon?
- Where Captain Cook?
Uh, Captain Cook is dead.
- Morti?
- Yes, yes, morti.
[SPEAKS TAHITIAN]
- He was a good man.
- Oh, yes.
- Hail King George.
- King George?
[SPEAKS TAHITIAN]
Captain Cook say King George come
on next English ship.
His Majesty is extremely
sorry he couldn't come.
[SPEAKS TAHITIAN]
I beg your pardon?
My hat.
Captain Cook say if King George
don't come, he send hat.
Yes, yes, yes! Of course, the hat.
Mr. Maggs, go to my cabin
and bring me the hat...
- The cocked hat, you fool!
- Yes, sir.
The hat will be here
in one moment.
So we shall require
1000 breadfruit plants.
- Breadfruit? Uru.
- Correct, uru. Uru.
- All we have for you.
- Thank you, thank you.
We shall have to stay here
for several months.
We shall have provision...
[SPEAKING TAHITIAN]
- They're welcome to anything.
- Don't be a fool.
- You'll need those gifts to make friends.
- Him no need gift, my friend.
- Me Hitihiti, you my tayo.
- Tayo?
BLIGH: Chief makes you his friend.
- In my tongue, close friend.
You live home, my home.
Tayo. Friend, the finest
word in any language.
- It shall be the first in my dictionary.
MAGGS: The hat.
Yes, thank you.
With the compliments of His Majesty
King George III of Great Britain.
[SPEAKING TAHITIAN]
- Byam, you come ashore with me.
- Sir?
Permission granted,
mind you report...
...onboard ship every night.
- Very good.
- Byam will live with my family.
- Impossible.
- I can have no favorites aboard my ship.
- Bligh, you are chief on this ship...
...but I am chief on that island.
Byam will come with me, yes?
Perhaps that's best. Permission granted.
By the way, Mr. Morrison,
pipe the ship's company aft.
MORRISON:
Aye, aye, sir. All hands aft.
[PIPE WHISTLING]
Well, we're here. Tahiti at last.
England to Cape Horn,
Africa, New Zealand...
...Van Diemen's Land
and the