 Soon after the "Bounty" made sail for the West Indies in early 1789, the mutiny occurred.Witnesses later testified that Muspratt was armed during the take-over with a musket, which he never used nor fired.The mutineer left the "Bounty" when it again called at Tahiti and did not accompany the inner core of the mutineers to their eventual destination in the Pitcairn Islands.