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May 30, 2017 03:08 pm PDT
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History buff confirms 1830 legend of Australian pirates in Japan
Nick Russell took a close look at contemporary samurai accounts of a strange ship that landed at Mugi port in 1830, and found it corroborated the celebrated legend of convict pirate William Swallow, who led an escape from Tasmania via a mutiny on the brig ship Cyprus.
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