William Harris (beachcomber)
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William Harris (beachcomber)
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William Harris was a British-born beachcomber who settled in pre-colonial Nauru and adopted a Nauruan lifestyle. A convict sentenced to the penal colony on Norfolk Island, he escaped and made his way to Nauru in 1842. There he "assimilated native culture [...,] took a Nauruan wife, fathered several children, and was adopted as a Nauruan. He became perhaps the only beachcomber the Nauruans ever fully accepted and trusted." He acted as an intermediary between his people of adoption and passing Eur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harris_(beachcomber)
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2023-06-22T15:17:29Z
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