p reached Tahiti, Melville joined a mutiny led by dissatisfied shipmates. The mutiny landed him in jail from which he later escaped from (2). He and some new friends began roaming the beautiful and unspoiled islands of Tahiti and Moorea (Clendenning 1). From this interesting event he later based his second book, Omoo, on it. Melville took his final whaling voyage as a harpooner on the ship Charles and Henry (Borey 1).
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