biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1824–94)
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| biography:
| Adventurer, born in Fort George, Oregon, USA. Of half-Indian, half-white descent, he ran away to sea at age 17. He ‘shipwrecked’ himself in Japan in 1848, and during his year-long imprisonment was the first teacher of English there. In the 1850s and 1860s he surfaced in Australia, Canada, and the USA as a businessman and explorer, at one point participating in the Canadian gold rush. He later retired to a Washington homestead. |
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