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Voyage of 1882 Aboard Wanderer Ends in Fiji Attack
Aboard the Wanderer in 1882 the mate and part owner describes a voyage loaded with sugar tobacco rum and goods to trade with Pacific islanders. A boy stows away is saved from punishment, becomes cook, and later helps avert an ambush at Vatoa. The crew repels a shore assault after a daring underwater cable theft thwarting a massacre plot led by the island king Tom John. Charlie Dean is rewarded and sent home to New York.
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Australia
Melbourne
Charlie Dean
Rochester
New York City
Cook
Charlie
New Caledonia
Loyalty Islands
Isle of
Vatoa
Fiji
Tom John
Bwngwang
Dean
Fo’castle
the & T
John Greene
Greene
New York