Chapter 1 probes the first dimension of mutineer subjectivity: the senses. The opening problem when interrogating mutineer testimony from this perspective is why some senses (vision and hearing) registered but others were strangely absent. The sights and sounds of mutiny divulge much about the experience of the participant. A visual language, notably the red flag, communicated and disseminated mutiny as well as contested the visual order of the authorities. This disruption in the visual realm made a powerful impression on all sides. More fundamentally, the epistemological relationship of sight and truth features in mutineer accounts and requires consideration. Mutineers tested the claims of their superiors with their own eyes: seeing was disbelieving. The mutiny also entailed a soundscape tantamount to an auditory contest comprising of silences, the overwhelming volume of modern warfare, laughter, murmuring, slang and song. The senses nourished mutineer subjectivity as intermediaries with the ‘outside world’.