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4 unusual facts about August Engelhardt


August Engelhardt

Health reformer August Moritz Engelhardt :de:August Engelhardt wrote a book called A Carefree Future in 1898, which described a colony of fruit and vegetable eaters, specifically cocoivores (coconut eaters) he was founding in the then Bismarck Archipelago (now Papua New Guinea) in the South Pacific a place known for its headhunters.

Kabakon was a Duke of York island, close to Neu-Lauenburg, in the Bismarck Archipelago, (now Papua New Guinea) and 28 miles from Herbertshöhe (today Kokopo), where the German New Guinea imperial administration was based at that time.

His plantation was now managed by another German planter Wilhelm Mirow, who later sold it to his Australian wife to escape expropriation by the Australians.

Heinrich Eukens, was a 24-year-old vegetarian, student of Bavaria and native of Heligoland.



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