"Rascals" is generous considering a lot of these people are rapists, slavers and murderers. A lot of topics that I'm surprised haven't been filmed. The Globe Mutineers were very violent. The French nobleman who sent Europeans out to a dud country. There's a successful Chinese pirate, good old Bligh, a lady explorer, Bully Hayes who is a rascal but also a slavery and child rapist. Leeteg is a painter. Louis Becke an Aussie writer I'd never heard of! Walter Gibson is a Yank who got involved in Hawaiian politics. William Mariner is perhaps the most intersting story - teenager who survived a massacre and was befriended by the King of Tonga, survived and got home to become an accountant.
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