 In it, Edward did not try to excuse his brother Fletcher's conduct, but citing his interviews with several of the people involved (none directly), and listing the names and addresses of several prominent people as witnesses to these interviews, he recounted several of the excesses of William Bligh, Commander of the "Bounty".At the time of the publication of the "Minutes" and "Appendix", the public's only published source of information about the mutiny were Bligh's own "A Narrative of the Mutiny on the Bounty", published in 1790, and "A Voyage to the South Sea", published in 1792.With the publication of the "Appendix", the tide of public opinion began to turn against Bligh.