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Boy Hero Charlie Dean Aids Ship From Pacific Island Attack
On a voyage from Melbourne to Australia a fourteen year old boy named Charlie Dean helps avert attack by Loyalty Island natives at Vatoa Fiji. Dean volunteers as cook after the ship’s sick cook dies, earns trust, then spots a planned massacre led by King Tom John. The brig escapes as natives set fires. Captain Greene’s Wave survivor is rescued. Dean is honored and later sent home to Rochester New York.
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