The Mutiny On the Bounty - The Whitehall Evening Post - September 19 - 22, 1789 to July 17 - 20, 1790., Four complete editions of this broadsheet newspaper each of which carries a news update from Lieutenant Bligh and the Bounty. In the first edition, The Bounty is reported to have reached the Society Islands, the edition of March 13 - 16 carries the first published report of an account of a mutiny on board the ship, the edition of 18 - 20 March carries a more detailed account of the mutiny and the 17 - 20 July edition carries a report of the Bounty at Tahiti. (4).