Mutiny on the Bounty (Update)

In an update to this podcast about the mutiny that took place aboard the HMS Bounty in 1789, we discuss the fate of the replica Bounty made in 1962. During Hurricane Sandy, the Bounty was headed from Connecticut to Florida. But what happened next?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Stuff you missed in History Class from house
works dot Com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm
to blae a choker boarding and I'm Scared Dowdy. And
there aren't a lot of stories that managed to capture
the spirit of adventure on the high seas quite like

(00:22):
Mutiny on the Bounty does. It's a tale that's been
made into a movie and a book, of course, but
it's also the true story of a mutiny that took
place in nine in which a crew of sailors on
board the British Rural Navy ship HMS Bounty rose up
against their commanding officer, William Bly And I, for one,
really will say it is a great story, and that's

(00:43):
why Katie and I have already covered it. Yes, we
talked about it a few years ago. I know it's
one of those that I really wish I had gotten
to do. But oh well, but the h MS Bounty
has been in the news recently, which is why we
felt it was a good time to come back to
the story to revisit it. When we say that the
HMS Bounty has been in the news, we're not, of
course talking about the original seventeen eighty nine Bounty. We're

(01:06):
talking about the replica toll ship built for the nineteen
sixty two movie Mutiny on the Bounty, which starred Marlon Brando,
another podcast subject in the past, but since that movie,
the ship has been featured in other films like Pirates
of the Caribbean. It was used for educational purposes to
teach people about square riggs sailing and a period of
maritime history that the original ship hailed from. It was

(01:30):
also available for for fun too, you know, for tours
for riding on this old school, authentic ship. Then Hurricane
Sandy happened in October, also called the frank and Storm
at times, Sandy caused a lot of damage and affected
people's lives in a number of really sad ways, ranging
from the loss of homes to the loss of lives,

(01:51):
and the HMS Bounty, unfortunately, was also a casualty of
this terrible storm. So here's the story. The Bounty left
New London, can Etiquette, where it had been undergoing some repairs,
on October twenty. Then it was headed for St. Petersburg, Florida,
where it was set to do a public appearance. It
went out to Connecticut and traveled due east to try

(02:12):
to avoid the oncoming hurricane. Obviously knew that this was
going on, but the crew thought that they would be
safe if they just went east and kind of went
around it. Early that Sunday, October. The crew thought that
it had managed to to to do that to avoid
the worst of the storm. But they were wrong. Yeah, unfortunately,
so the ship ran into the tail end of the hurricane,

(02:35):
which was of course making its way up the Atlantic coast,
and ultimately it started to take on water and at
least one of its generators failed. A distress call was
also put into the U. S. Coast Guard or out
to them, and most of the sixteen man crew was
evacuated onto life rafts. I mean, it was a really
heroic rescue in the middle of the storm, and it

(02:58):
was remarkable that so many people did end up surviving.
The ship, however, did not make it, and unfortunately not
all of the crew members did either. I believe two
two of them were lost. Only fourteen out of sixteen
made it. The one person died sort of immediately was
washed off the ship into the ocean, and the captain

(03:18):
was missing. An interesting note here about one of the
crew members, the one who died Claudine Christian. She was
the great, great, great, great great. I hope I got
the right amount of greats in their granddaughter of Fletcher Christian,
the lead mutineer of the original HMS Bounty. So nice
historical connection there, but a very tragic story both for

(03:42):
the ship and for the people involved. And I guess
that's why we wanted to kind of air this episode again,
and just to honor the ship and to honor honor
the lives of the people who clearly clearly valued something
that was though historical, and gave a lot of people
great pleasure. So we'll re air the Bounty and and

(04:05):
talk about bread Fruit once more. Hello, and welcome to
the podcast. I'm Katie Lambert and I'm Sarah Dowdy, and
most of us know a little bit about our topic
for today, the mutiny on the Bounty, and we know
there's this outraged group of sailors and the mutiny against
their captain and two amazing stories in Sue. And the

(04:28):
first is that the mutineers, with a group of Tahitian women,
end up establishing a colony on this remote Pacific island
that still exists today. The island and the colony obviously,
and then the other is that the cast off captain
and his loyalists navigate thousands of miles to safety and
make it all the way back to England eventually. But

(04:50):
that's about all most people know well, and our understanding
of the people involved isn't quite as good as our
understanding of the basics. And that's part le due to
the misleading but entertaining film portrayals of the stories. Two
leading men in film Captain Bligh and our mutineer Fletcher Christian. Yeah,
most of the films depict Bligh as this hard knows

(05:13):
bully and Christian is a dashing hero, but those depictions
aren't necessarily correct, and times movies lie. Yeah. It turns out, though,
that the films weren't the first to skew it that way,
with with one as the hero and one as this
mean old captain, and the two men's respective reputations actually

(05:35):
started to grow shortly after the mutiny itself, when some
of the participants are brought back to England for justice
and try to skew the story and save their hides
by defaming your captain. And it's these interesting back stories
and others that continue centuries after the mutiny that made
our listener, Catherine in London, suggests the topic. So we're

(05:57):
going to start our mission, all right, So the famous
mutiny happens in the Pacific Islands in seventeen eighty nine.
But before we get into that, we have to understand
why the ship was there in the first place. It
wasn't on your ordinary run of the mill mission. No,
it was a culinary mission. And to understand we have

(06:19):
to go back to seventeen sixty nine when Captain James
Cook ship the Endeavor, discovered the breadfruit in Tahiti, and
Joseph Banks, a famous botanist on board, took note. And
several years after this, England had a bit of a
food crisis, and it wasn't about feeding their own people,
but about feeding their slaves in Jamaica and the Lesser Antilles.

(06:41):
And they were wondering, what can we feed all of
these people with that's cheap and easy to grow in
the Caribbean. And uh, part of the problem here was
that they didn't have the North American colonies anymore producing
loads of food and fish to to feed these big
slave populations. So botanist Banks suggested the bread fruit, but

(07:04):
of course that's in Tahiti, so someone would have to
go there take saplings and cuttings and then attempt to
propagate the tree in the West Indies. And by seventeen
eighty seven at very adamant Banks finally convinced the king
to sponsor this mission. So who would they put in charge,
Good old, reliable William Bly. And William Bly had been

(07:25):
in the navy for quite some time. He was born
to a customs officer in seventeen fifty four, probably in Poymouth, England,
and he joined the Royal Navy as a teen and
rose pretty fast under the service of Captain Cook, who
we mentioned earlier. And Bligh was even there when Cook
was bludgeoned to death by natives in what is now

(07:46):
the Hawaiian Islands, so that would be an unfortunate thing
to witness. But he also learned a lot from Cook,
and after returning to England and getting married and having kids,
he left the Royal Navy and became a meander of
merchant ships, which was a really good way to make
a lot of money and to have a bit of

(08:06):
an easier career than sailing all over the world for
the Navy, right, but he came out of retirement to
serve on this bread fruit mission and his vessel would
be the two hundred fifteen ton Bethia renamed the Bounty,
and he accepted the mission. But it didn't turn out
to be the prestigious, well funded scientific expedition he hoped

(08:29):
it would be. The ship was tiny, he didn't get
the title of master and commander, and he didn't have
the security and commissioned officers that should have come with
that kind of trip. But nevertheless, he's got a major
trip underway, and one of the first men he recruits
is Fletcher Christian, who's served him well before and has
connections to his family. However, Yeah, so we have this

(08:52):
really bizarre mission to get the bread fruit. Not of
particularly popular mission, but nevertheless it said soft December after
delays of weeks because of unsuitable weather, so a bad
start almost right away. But the ship leaves from Spithead, England,
and the plan is to go to Tahiti by way

(09:14):
of South America, sailing around the Cape Horn, and they
near the Cape by late March, but the weather is
so bad that they make a detour, and this detour
is just insane if you get the tour around the world. Yeah,
if you get mad about having to go a few
blocks out of your way. Take note here. Their detour
involved going around the Cape of Good Hope, which is

(09:36):
in Africa, obviously, and it takes until May for them
to get there. They stop at Cape Town, refit their ship,
reload their supplies, and head on their way. And Blind
may have been disappointed with the initial expedition, but things
are actually going well so far, especially considering their bad
weather and the long delay. The men are in good health.

(09:58):
There haven't been a lot of injuries. He even loans
money to Christian while they're in Africa, which Bli was
a little bit of a tight wad, so that's really
a big deal. And from the Cape they headed to Tasmania,
which is where their troubles began. They have a man
die after a blood letting, and some of the other
men become a little insolent, but still they press on.

(10:19):
They get to Tahiti October, and when they arrive in Tahiti,
the Islanders come pouring aboard the ship, and this is
a relatively happy time, perhaps one of the last truly
happy times on this mission. Bli has been to the
islands before. He really likes Tahiti. He gets along well
with the native people and he even called Tahiti the

(10:42):
paradise of the world. And he also gets to work
on his mission, which is of course securing the bread
fruit plants and the trees. So he gets permission from
the island chiefs to transplant and builds a place to
put the plants and let them grow, and then hangs
chai for about five of months to see if the
plants take and to wait out the rainy season. And

(11:03):
his men don't seem to mind Tahiti. Of course, it's
gorgeous and they like the native women, but not all
of their tensions smelt away. Three of the men go
missing with arms and ammo. They aren't found for three weeks.
Bli gets grumpy, of course, to find that his orders
aren't carried out. The men are lacks about important issues,
um the spare sales, rot and mildew for examp. Pretty

(11:24):
major problems happening. Yeah, that's a big deal. But finally
on April five, the bounty is ready to leave with
its one thousand, fifteen saplings. So by the eleventh of April,
the ship anchors at the rather ironic Lean and Friendly Islands,
because not long after they leave their Bli and Christian
begin to argue and not friendly, No, it's not friendly.

(11:47):
This was according to a later account. But things get
worse by the twenty one and that's when Christian is
hard to say, sir, your abuse is so bad that
I cannot do my duty with any pleasure. I've been
in hell for weeks with you, and by April the
two are fighting again. Blige is disappointed that Christian let
native men scare him, and he's furious that the Watch

(12:10):
let a Native diver make off with a small anchor.
And that brings us to our last straw, which was
Blige's manhunt over stolen coconuts, which sounds absolutely ridiculous, but
I think you have to consider these people being in
such close quarters with each other for so long and
an already tense situation ready to go home, stolen coconuts

(12:31):
become a really big deal. But Blithe specifically implicates Christian
before imposing this ration on Yams, and it just devastates Christian.
Apparently he seemed crying and Bligh it's not as big
of a deal for him. He actually doesn't stay angry
for long. He invites Christian to dine with him that night.

(12:54):
Christian uh doesn't get over it so quickly, though, because
preda on April. According to Bligh's account, Christian comes in
with other men, seizes him, ties him up and threatens
to kill him, and they haul him naked except for
a shirt, onto the deck where he's placed on the
launch vessel and joined by eighteen others who were loyal

(13:15):
to the captain, and they're given some supplies rum about
five days worth of food, water, some tools, and a compass,
and four cutlass is tossed in. At the last minute.
Three people loyal to Bli are actually detained on board,
and that will come into play later. But Bli is
there trying to reason with Christian at the last minute.

(13:37):
Here he knows what's about to happen to him, and
he knows that it most likely means death and death
for the men on this little skiff. He tries to
remind Christian that he's held his children back in England,
that he's been his mentor this whole time, and asks
if this is proper repayment for his kindness, and Christians
says that Captain bly, that is the thing. I am

(14:00):
in hell. I am in hell. So Christian is pretty
tortured by this decision to mutiny against his captain. Other
men at the trial substantiate this account, and it's possible
that Christian had considered slipping off the ship in a
raft alone, which would have been suicidal, but was talked

(14:20):
into mutiny instead. And while a movie might end, there
are podcast will not. So first we're going to catch
up with the captain post mutiny. Things look really bleak.
This tiny boat, lots of guys, not much food, and
they're sailing through mostly uncharted water. Certain death, yes, certain death.
It seems like um. But even though Bligh isn't the

(14:43):
best people person, maybe not the best captain for no
managerial skills negotiating with folks, he's a really great navigator.
And from his tiny little glimpses he's had of of
charted waters that the waters that actually are charted, he's
able to navigate thousands of miles back to safety. What

(15:05):
he's done is is pretty fantastic. And they stop on
a volcanic island, but when one of them was killed
by natives, Blies determined not to stop again. So two
Teamore or death, as Sarah wrote in her outline, But
the problem would be that Teamore is about three thousand,
six hundred miles away. And the other thing is everyone
on the boat kind of hates each other, which is

(15:27):
going to be a running theme for the rest of
the podcast. They bicker and argue with each other the
whole way, and of course they're starving too, so they
have a lot of good reasons to be on the
grumpy side. Somewhat miraculously, they reached Teamore June fourteenth nine,
and the English Chronicle calls the navigation of his little

(15:48):
skiff through so dangerous a sea a matchless undertaking that
seems beyond the verge of probability. And from there they
go on to Jakarta and eventually find a ride all
the way back to England and Lie is hailed as
a hero, and he writes a narrative which is very popular,
and he also gets a new job still with the
bread Fruit. You think you would be red fruit sick

(16:10):
of red fruit by this point, but um, this time around,
the mission is going to be different. He's going to
have lieutenants, he's going to have marines for security. I
think the Royal Navy has realized that a mission of
this size should have been managed better. Oh and it's
payback time. The Royal Navy also wants to hunt it

(16:31):
down our mutineers, if there are any mutineers left to find,
which brings us to our next question, what happened to
the mutineers? So in the Navy commissions Captain Edward Edwards
and the Pandora to find the surviving mutineers in the Pacific,
and one of the Bligh Skift survivors comes along to

(16:53):
presumably to help identify the men and to talk to
them and probably bring out their guilt a little too,
if this is the guy you tossed into a boat
not too long ago. Face to face encounter. When the
ship arrives in Tahiti, three bounty mutineers swim out to it.
They're so ready to go home, and they're arrested and chained,
while the other men are rounded up and put into

(17:14):
the prison hut on deck, which they called Pandora's Box,
which is pretty clever. And one of the survivors tells
Edwards how the men got there, and he pieces together
more from the journals of the captured men. But the
basics are that hatred and jealousy began immediately after the mutiny,
with some men thinking that Christian favored his friends among

(17:34):
the other mutineers. So the ship initially anchors on a
tiny island south Titi, and because they're pretty short unsupplies,
they head back to Tahiti and load up on livestock
as well as a bunch of Tahitian people women, men, boys,
and one girl, and then head back to their tiny
island and they try to live there for about three

(17:56):
months before the in fighting again with the infi no more.
It gets insufferable and Christian agrees to take some of
the men back to Tahiti, and he takes sixteen of
them back, implying that he'll linger nearby the island on
the ship for about a day or so before slipping off.
That he doesn't doesn't happen. He leaves in the middle

(18:18):
of the night, essentially kidnapping the women who were on
board the ship. One even jumps overboard and swims back
from beyond the coral reef when she realizes what's happening,
and sadly, of the sixteen left in Tahiti, two are murdered.
So back to our Captain Edwards. He keeps hunting for
Christian and his band of men, but he can't find them.

(18:39):
He eventually gives up and starts to head home, but
runs his ship aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef Thirty
one of his men drowned and four prisoners die, so
only ten prisoners make it back to England, where they
will be tried together. And the prosecution rests on three points.
These men didn't try to stop the mutiny, they didn't
get into the law with BLI, and they didn't try

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to get to England after the mutiny, but hid instead.
And there's still more fighting among the defendants over who
did what, because obviously this is the time to implicate
your fellows. He was the guy with the weapon. It
wasn't me. I was dragged into the whole thing by Christian.
You can imagine. It goes on and on, and four

(19:22):
of the men have letters from BLI declaring them innocent,
so this court martial for them is pretty much a formality.
They'll be okay. Three are virtually assured death because they
had all been seen with arms. Everyone can agree that
these three guys were bearing arms, and three are kind
of up in the air, especially one named Peter Hayward,

(19:43):
who's the only officer charged, and he was only fifteen
at the time of the mutiny. He's from a really
well connected family though, and says that he's young and
confused at the time of the mutiny, that he had
been sleeping below decks so hadn't been able to react
in till it was a bit too late, and he
didn't want to join the launch because it was so overloaded.

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But interestingly too, it's his testimony that kind of helps
build up the legend of BLI as a sadistic, incompetent captain,
something that will help Haywood get off the hook. And
he of course isn't there to defend his own name.
He's on bread Fruit Mission Part two, so that's the
only account that people are going by really. So ultimately

(20:27):
one of the prisoners gets off on a legal technicality,
two are pardoned, including Hayward, and then three hang at
Portsmith Harbor and their bodies are displayed for two hours
in the range just a warning to other Wood message
to you. So Bli's second bread Fruit mission is successful.
He secures two thousand one plants. He manages to get

(20:52):
six hundred and seventy eight of them to the West
Indies and there he delivers them at St. Vincent and Jamaica,
and he was delayed there by the start of the
French Revolution, but eventually returned and continues his up and
down career. Being gone for the trial was very unfortunate
for his reputation since a bit of a pamphlet war
started not only with Hayward's claims against his character, but

(21:15):
Christian's brother, a law professor at Cambridge who interviews the
crew members to show problems with the command, and that's
where he gets his nickname, the Bounty Bastard, which haunts
him for the rest of his life. But catching up
with Christian and his men, what happens to them? Captain
Edwards is never able to find them, presumably they're all dead.

(21:37):
They don't make it. But the second act of this
story continues in eighteen ten when the American ship Topaz
and Captain Folger find this Englishman Alexander Smith also known
as John Adams, on Pitcaren Island in the South Pacific.
So what's he doing here? He's claiming he's a bounty survivor.

(21:58):
He tells how the grew of mutineers, Tahitian women and
male Tahitian servants landed there in seventeen nine and stripped
and burned the bounty to cover their tracks. In fighting,
once again, it kills off almost everyone, with Christian getting
shot in the neck with a pistol ball, although other
rumors do have Christian escaping Pitcaren and returning to England,

(22:21):
probably unlikely. It seems like infighting is our general trend
here and we should probably go We're going with the
pistol ball. But just because most of the men have
killed each other off doesn't mean that this island is
devoid of a population. There has been a lot of
repopulating going on at the same time, and the island
now has thirty five inhabitants, and Smith is their leader.

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And the first to be born on the island is
actually Christian's own son. And so this new expedition finds
a twenty year old Thursday October Christian, the descendant of Fletcher,
and a Tahitian woman, a name we had a lot
of fun with earlier. Today. Some of the settlers eventually
immigrate to Norfolk Island, east of Australia, and many of

(23:04):
them still live there today, but others still live on
pit Karen, where they speak English and pitt Kern, a
mix of Tahitian and eighteenth century English, which sounds pretty cool.
And they trade with ships that come by or sell
their stuff online. But a few years ago they had
a scandal when numerous men were arrested and charged with
abusing underage girls. I'd read a big article in Vanity

(23:28):
Fair about it, called Trouble in Paradise, which you can
find online. Sarah read some other accounts, yeah, and NPR
story about the journalist Kathy Marks who had unearthed this
whole history which apparently stretched back for generations, at least
three generations of abuse. That's just a side note for us.
We're going to go to the more popular game of

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what went wrong? So why was there this mutiny in
the first place. That's the big popular question, and one
myth to debunk is that Bli and Christian had this secret,
illicit relationship and that's why Christian just got so angry
at Bligh and mutinied. He was in Hell. He wasn't Hell, Yeah, exactly. So.

(24:12):
The historian who first suggested this idea retracted it later
after she reassessed the size of the ship and figured
that there was no way you could have conducted a
secret affair aboard a vessels so small. And this mutiny
also didn't happen because Bli was too strict. In his
captain's log, he had noted that he hadn't punished anyone

(24:34):
until several months in, and he also noted that he'd
hoped to complete the journey without it flogging, and those
types of punishment weren't something that he relied on. That
was a sign of trouble for him. Yeah, he was
really pretty light on corporal punishment as far as other
captains in the Pacific went. He's a pretty progressive captain,
according to Caroline Alexander, who is a historian who's written

(24:57):
several articles in books on the subject, and she said
that especially in terms of food and sleep for the men,
he's extremely progressive. So it wasn't about that. It wasn't
that he was this tyrannical, physically abusive captain, but he
could have been verbally and personally abusive in a way
that really needled his men. So Alexander's biggest cause of

(25:20):
the mutiny is Fletcher Christian himself, and she says that
it wouldn't have happened without him, and that it happened
because of his own personal breakdown. So maybe we shouldn't
look too to Blige for our problems, but to Christian himself.
So Sarah, was this mission for bread fruit all for not? Yeah,
we have to catch up with the bread fruit here,

(25:41):
since it's the whole purpose for this story. The specimens
that arrive in Jamaica are practically too late because it
takes a while for this exotic, strange food to catch on,
and by the time it finally does catch on, slavery
has been abolished by the British today. Know, it's actually

(26:01):
a really popular food in Jamaica, And according to the Smithsonian,
a mature tree produces two hundred pounds of fruit a season,
which is kind of insane. And it's filled with protein
and calories and carbohydrates and nutrients. And you can grill
it and fry it and bake it and roast it.

(26:22):
I mean, I feel like I'm talking about shrimp and forests.
I'm thinking the same thing. So if you'd like to
send us a breadfruit recipe, please do, And that brings
us to the end of the mute and the bounty
and our ideas about who or what was the cause
of it. So there it was kind of an incredible story.

(26:44):
It's a really incredible story. I mean, the miles involved.
I remember at the time that was what what most
amazed me, Like, how do you travel that distance in?
You know, they were they were just flying by the
seat of their pants essentially, I know, I mean, and
those stories always kind of blow my mind even today,

(27:05):
you know, those sorts of stories of survival and and
and making it through kind of treacherous conditions with very
little but historically I think it's even more impressive. It is.
I have to throw this into since we have revisited
the subject of the mutan me on the bounty. Um.
I was clearly very interested in bread fruit, and I
don't remember if I ever included this in a later

(27:27):
listener Maal, but I did finally purchase a bread fruit.
I found one at the grocery store. I thought to myself,
I'm buying that breadfruit and went home and prepared it.
What you do with it? Um, I think I baked it,
if I remember correctly, There were a few, you know,
I asked around for a few different preparation methods. Who

(27:49):
did you ask? Who I was like, who was making
the breadfruit? I thought it might be someone we knew
in the office or something. No, no, although you never know. Um,
But I think now re airing this episode, I'm almost
tempted to try again because I remember there another quite
a few ways you could prepare bread fruit, and I

(28:11):
clearly barely scratched the surface. Maybe we shouldn't have a
cook off bread fruit instead of a chili cookoff this year.
Do a bread fruit for the holiday? Maybe, I don't know.
We'll have to get the rest of our office on
board with that one. So many possibilities there. But like
we said, I mean, we're we're kind of joking about
it now and uh and touching on some of the

(28:32):
cooler parts of the story. But at the same time,
you know, as we mentioned the news about the bounty,
it is no more so there's a sad note to
this story as well, um, but always interesting to get
these updates it is. It's it's interesting whenever you see,
um something covered as heavily as this too, you know
you would maybe maybe it's the Pirates of the Caribbean um,

(28:55):
but that connection was all over the news. It was.
It was one of the main stand these stories coming
out first, first couple of days. So um. Anyway, it was.
It was good to talk about it again and discuss
some things. And Okay, listener, nail time. We have a

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It's about need to break out the list. Yeah, we're
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But we got this one that was kind of interesting
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(29:38):
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(30:00):
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(30:24):
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hear from from you guys and from the rest of
you too, and hear what you're doing like that, I
am compiling a list. We will have to go through
a rundown on that sooner or later, but we love
hearing these They're always entertaining. Yeah, if you want to

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