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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.
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 ...
At 16 years of age, Becke was a stowaway on a ship bound for Samoa. [1] In Apia he took a job as a book-keeper in the store of Mrs Mary Mcfarlane which he held until some time after December 1872. [2] Under orders of Mrs Mcfarlane, Becke sailed a ketch, the E.A. Williams to Mili Atoll to deliver it to William "Bully" Hayes, the notorious ...
The notorious captain and blackbirder Bully Hayes was shipwrecked on Kosrae on March 15, 1874, when his ship Leonora was caught in Utwe harbor during a storm. Bully Hayes made his home in Utwe for seven months, during which he terrorized the local people. [4]
Bully Hayes, an American ship-captain who achieved notoriety for his activities in the Pacific from the 1850s to the 1870s, arrived in Papeete, Tahiti in December 1868 on his ship Rona with 150 men from Niue. Hayes offered them for sale as indentured labourers. [33]
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]
These were the ship rigged vessel William Henry from New York, the brigs Iris and Sarah Morril from Boston, and a pair of merchant schooners, one hailing from Rochester, Massachusetts, and the other from Salem. [4] Allen's force of 100 was outnumbered and also outgunned, with Alligator mounting only 12 six-pounders, compared to the pirates' 14 ...
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 ...