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Alexander Hare

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Sep 26, 2026

WW1: Unusual Tales from The Great War.

WW1: Unusual Tales from The Great War.

7. The Buccaneering Emden

Sep 26 · 1 Mention

Andy StewartHOST
11:28
The islands are believed to have been discovered in 1609 by Captain William Keeling, hence the name.
Andy StewartHOST
11:36
They were uninhabited until 1826 when Alexander Hare, an English merchant and polygamist, moved his family to Home Island.
Andy StewartHOST
11:48
This was a harem of some 40 enslaved women of Malay ethnicity.
Andy StewartHOST
11:54
He spent his life traveling around the colonial islands of Southeast Asia, founding new settlements, apparently collecting wives, and then he soon moved on.

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