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One thing is clear that the man was risky (yet punter).
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He served in the Merchant Navy: out to sea as a sailor and was promoted to lieutenant, sailed across the Atlantic on sailing ships, climbed the rigging, hanging over the ocean storm on the huge swaying mast.
Then there was the battle corvette Jerome Napoleon, research voyage in the northern seas, the war with Prussia. He has his uncle was. Yes, and spent his childhood in Peru, too, for those times quite an exotic experience, I believe. .