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William Henry "Bully" Hayes (1827 or 1829 – 31 March 1877) [1] was a notorious American ship's captain who engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s. [2] [3] Hayes operated across the breadth of the Pacific Ocean from the 1850s until his murder on 31 March 1877. He has been described as a South Sea pirate and "the last of the buccaneers".
Captain Bully Hayes is a 1970 Australian book by Frank Clune about Bully Hayes. It has been called "Perhaps the most reliable account of the life of Bully Hayes." [1] [2] [3] Clune had written about Hayes in an episode of his 1938 radio series Scallywags of the Pacific. [4] He also wrote about him in his 1938 book Free and Easy Land. [5]
In August 1871 Restieaux sailed with Bully Hayes on the Leonora and landed on Pingelap atoll where he traded as agent for Hayes until May 1872. Bully Hayes gave Restieaux a promissory note payable three months from date – this was never paid. [1] Restieaux sailed with Hayes through the Gilbert Islands (now known as Kiribati) and arrived in ...
Blackbirding sea Captain William Henry Bully Hayes. Albert Ross Hovell, son of the noted explorer William Hilton Hovell, was a prominent blackbirder in the early years of the Fijian labour market. [132] In 1867 he was captain of Sea Witch, recruiting men and boys from Tanna and Lifou.
First edition (publ. Random House) Rascals in Paradise is a 1957 collection of ten nonfiction short stories co-written by James A. Michener (1907-1997) and University of Hawaii professor Arthur Grove Day (1904-1994). [1]
A reviewer in The Australian Star expressed an initial wariness with the novel, given that the author had moved his focus from bushrangers to Buccaneers but "it was well for one who, whether by personal visitation or reading, or intercourse with island men, had made himself familiar with the facts of the island life to weave them into such a romance as people of to-day and to-morrow would read ...
Pease was described as “a satanic looking rascal with a black spade beard – [who] was a more openly piratical operator than [Bully] Hayes”. [4] Pease may have greater claim than Bully Hayes as being a South Sea pirate and "the last of the buccaneers," [5] [6] as Pease appears to have been engaged in filibustering in his activities in the opium trade after China's defeat in the Second ...
Nate and Hayes: New Zealand United States Ferdinand Fairfax: Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe, Jenny Seagrove: Film about Bully Hayes (1827 – 1877) The Pirates of Penzance: United Kingdom United States Wilford Leach: Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt: Musical Space Raiders: United States Howard R. Cohen: Vince Edwards, David ...