Charles Napier Bell

Charles Napier Bell was born on 14 September 1835 in Rothesay, Scotland, the son of James Stanislaus Bell, a merchant and adventurer, who settled on the Mosquito Coast to exploit mahogany. He spent his childhood and youth there, spoke Miskito and lived with the Prussian adventurer Gustavus von Tempsky, who would marry his sister. An engineer trained in Glasgow, he built railways in Brazil, then settled in New Zealand in 1871, where he built harbours and sewers, and also worked in Australia. He died on 3 January 1906 in Derby, Tasmania.

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• NarrativeTangweera: Life and Adventures among Gentle SavagesCharles Napier Bell · 1899Literature