I said, 'Christian, consider what you are about.' 'Hold your tongue, Sir,' he said; 'I have been in hell for weeks past; Captain Bligh has brought all this on himself.' I told him that Mr.Bligh and he not agreeing was no reason for taking the ship.
'Hold your tongue, Sir,' he said.

I said,--Mr.Christian, you and I have been on friendly terms during the voyage, therefore give me leave to speak,--let Mr.Bligh go down to his cabin, and I make no doubt we shall all be friends again;--he then repeated, 'Hold your tongue, Sir; it is too late'; and threatening me if I said anything more.

Mr.Fryer then asked him to give a better boat than the cutter; he said, 'No, that boat is good enough.' Bligh now said to the master, that the man behind the hen-coops (Isaac Martin) was his friend, and desired him (the master) to knock Christian down, which Christian must have heard, but took no notice; that Fryer then attempted to get past Christian to speak to Martin, but he put his bayonet to his breast, saying, 'Sir, if you advance an inch farther, I will run you through,' and ordered two armed men to take him down to his cabin.

Shortly afterwards he was desired to go on deck, when Christian ordered him into the boat: he said, 'I will stay with you, if you will give me leave.' 'No, Sir,' he replied, 'go directly into the boat.' Bligh, then on the gangway, said, 'Mr.Fryer, stay in the ship.' 'No, by G---- d, Sir,' Christian said, 'go into the boat, or I will run you through.' Mr.Fryer states, that during this time very bad language was used by the people towards Mr.Bligh; that with great difficulty they prevailed on Christian to suffer a few articles to be put into the boat; that after the persons were ordered into the boat to the number of nineteen, such opprobrious language continued to be used, several of the men calling out 'Shoot the----,' that Cole, the boatswain, advised they should cast off and take their chance, as the mutineers would certainly do them a mischief if they stayed much longer.

Mr.Fryer then states the names of those who were under arms; and that Joseph Coleman, Thomas M'Intosh, Charles Norman, and Michael Byrne (prisoners), wished to come into the boat, declaring they had nothing to do in the business; that he did not perceive Mr.
Peter Heywood on deck at the seizure of the ship.
On being asked what he supposed Christian meant when he said he had been in hell for a fortnight?
he said, from the frequent quarrels that they had, and the abuse he had received from Mr.Bligh, and that the day before the mutiny Mr.Bligh had challenged all the young gentlemen and people with stealing his cocoa-nuts.
_Mr.Cole_, the boatswain, deposes,--that he had the middle watch; was awakened out of his sleep in the morning, and heard a man calling out to the carpenter, that they had mutinied and taken the ship; that Christian had the command, and that the captain was a prisoner on the quarter-deck; that he went up the hatchway, having seen Mr.Heywood and Mr.Young in the opposite berth; that coming on deck he saw the captain with his hands tied behind him, and four sentinels standing over him, two of which were Ellison and Burkitt, the prisoners; that he asked Mr.
Christian what he meant to do, and was answered by his ordering him to hoist the boat out, and shook the bayonet, threatening him and damning him if he did not take care; that when he found the captain was to be sent out of the ship, he again went aft with the carpenter to ask for the long-boat; that they asked three or four times before he granted it; that he saw Mr.Peter Heywood, one of the prisoners, lending a hand to get the fore-stayfall along, and when the boat was hooked on, spoke something to him, but what it was does not know, as Christian was threatening him at the time; that Heywood then went below, and does not remember seeing him afterwards; that after the few things were got into the boat, and most of the people in her, they were trying for the carpenter's tool-chest, when Quintal said, 'D---- n them, if we let them have these things they will build a vessel in a month'; but when all were in the boat she was veered astern, when Coleman, Norman, and M'Intosh, prisoners, were crying at the gangway, wishing to go in the boat; and Byrne in the cutter alongside was also crying; that he advised Mr.Bligh to cast off, as he feared they would fire into the boat.
_The Court_ asked if he had any reason to believe that any other of the prisoners than those named were detained contrary to their inclinations?
Answer--'I believe Mr.Heywood was; I thought all along he was intending to come away; he had no arms, and he assisted to get the boat out, and then went below; I heard Churchill call out, 'Keep them below.' _The Court_--'Do you think he meant Heywood ?' 'I have no reason to think any other.' _Mr.Peckover_ the gunner's evidence is similar to that of Mr.Cole's, and need not be detailed.
_Mr.Purcell_, the carpenter, corroborated, generally, the testimony of the three who had been examined.