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Set on the Bendigo diggings in the 1850s, an account of the narrator's digging mate. Born in the USA by the Mississippi River he had become a sailor but when his sweetheart died during one of his voyages he lost all hope in the world, eventually drifting in the Victorian diggings. A "hatter" (lone miner) until the narrator's arrival, he indulged in regular drinking sprees and despite attempts to reform, dies after falling into a deserted mineshaft one night. Melancholy and a little slow. (PB)
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- Bendigo, Bendigo area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
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