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. Baudin suggested

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as a place where seals could be found in abundance. On Kangaroo Island near modern-day American River, South Australia, Pendleton commissioned the construction of the schooner ''

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'', the first ship built in South Australian waters. Pendelton was killed by natives on

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on 1 October 1804.

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