Captain Bligh made a second, and successful, attempt to introduce breadfruit to the Caribbean. He returned to Tahiti and the crew collected hundreds of specimens of breadfruit, along with many other useful and ornamental species. In 1793 the HMS Providence delivered 600 plants of several Tahitian varieties to St. Vincent and Jamaica. The shipment also included a seeded type (breadnut) that was picked up during a stopover at Timor, where he had traveled with the other members of the crew after the mutiny. The director of the St. Vincent Botanical Garden was a great advocate of this new crop and distributed plants widely to the Leeward and Windward Islands and the Bahamas. The majority of breadfruit in the Caribbean and elsewhere in the tropics originated from those few early introductions. The French also brought breadfruit to their Caribbean colonies; Martinique and Cayenne received a variety from Tonga via the Pamplemousse Botanical Garden in Mauritius. Two hundred years later (in 1990) 24 varieties from the breadfruit collection at the National Tropical Botanical Garden were given to the University of the West Indies to establish field trials at various campuses.