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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 ...
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]
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]
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.
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 ...
Bully Hayes was a notorious recruiter of native labour in the South Seas using trickery or kidnap. The practice referred to as blackbirding, supplied plantation owners with workers who often never returned to their homeland. In 1872 Hayes was arrested by Captain Meade of the USS Narragansett in Samoa. However, after investigation, he was ...
George Lewis Becke Born (1855-06-18) 18 June 1855 Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia Died 18 February 1913 (1913-02-18) (aged 57) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Known for short story writer and novelist Spouse Fanny Sabina Long Children Nora, Niya, Alrema George Lewis Becke (or Louis Becke ; 18 June 1855 – 18 February 1913) was at the turn of the nineteenth century, the most ...