Английская Википедия:David Whippey
Шаблон:Short description David Whippey (or Whippy, 1802–1871)[1][2] was an American sailor from Nantucket who became a "beachcomber", a white resident of the Fijian islands who served as liaison between the local and foreign communities, and eventually was the United States vice-consul to Fiji.
Whippey left Nantucket on the whaling ship Hero in 1816, but jumped ship in Peru.[3] In 1824 he arrived in the Fijian Islands on the brig Шаблон:Ship, the captain Peter Dillon then left Whippey behind to collect tortoise shell, but Dillon failed to return for 13 years.[1] By 1826 Whippey had become Mata ki Bau (the envoy to the powerful Fijian tribe of Bau).[1] Whippey settled in Levuka on the island of Ovalau in Fiji, married a local woman, and had at least eleven children with multiple women.[1] He also mediated between the Fijians and white sailors.[4]
Whippey served as the vice-consul of the United States to Fiji from 1846 to 1856.[5]
The first attempt at commercial sugar production in Fiji was by Whippey on Wakaya Island (near Ovalau) in 1862, where he built a sugarcane mill, but this was a financial failure, as the island is small and not suited for growing sugarcane.[6][7][1] Whippey spent the later years of his life on Wakaya until his death in 1871.[1]
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- Beachcombers
- American emigrants
- Immigrants to Fiji
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- People from Nantucket, Massachusetts
- 1820s in Fiji
- 1830s in Fiji
- 1840s in Fiji
- 1850s in Fiji
- Fiji–United States relations
- 1802 births
- 1871 deaths
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