8th Grade Wordly Wise Lesson 6

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Across
  1. 2. Captain Bligh was given a hero's welcome when he arrived in London. He was __________ everywhere for his great feat of seamanship.
  2. 4. Four prisoners drowned when the Pandora sank. Even when drowning seemed ___________, the captain refused to release them.
  3. 6. Everyone on the open boat knew who was in charge. Captain Bligh allowed no ___________ among the eighteen crew members.
  4. 8. Fighting had broken out between the mutineers and the Tahitians who had accompanied them. Soon the island was plunged into _________________.
  5. 10. Two years passed, and the mutineers lived life undisturbed. They had married Tahitian women and were thoroughly ____________ into island life.
  6. 12. That blissful life ended with the arrival of the Pandora. The mutineers were quickly ___________ and taken abroad.
  7. 13. Pitcairn Island was believed to be uninhabited. But in 1808, the outside world learned of the ___________ events that had taken place.
  8. 14. The six prisoners who survived were put on trial. It was proved that three of them had taken part in the __________, and they were hanged.
Down
  1. 1. For days on end the men were soaked by tropical rainstorms. At other times, they ___________ in the heat under the blazing sun.
  2. 3. The captain of the Pandora hoped his ______________ of the prisoners would give him a clue as to the whereabouts of Fletcher Christian.
  3. 5. The Pandora began to sink when it ran into a storm. Escape was difficult for the prisoners as they were _______________.
  4. 7. The American ship Topaz landed on what they thought was an uninhabited island in 1808. Almost twenty years had _____________ since the mutiny of the Bounty.
  5. 8. The prisoners aboard the Pandora had a long sea voyage ahead of them. They would be _____________ before a navy court as soon as they reached England.
  6. 9. Captain Bligh reached Timor after forty-one days at sea. He reported the ____________ that had befallen his ship to the Dutch governor.
  7. 11. Captain Bligh had to explain how he came to lose his ship. A(n) ____________ inquiry was held, which found that Bligh was not responsible.