HENRY AUGUSTUS WISE
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An American naval officer and author; born at Brooklyn, N. Y., May 12, 1819; died at Naples, Italy, April 2, 1869. Under the pseudonym of "Harry Gringo", he wrote "Los Gringos; or, An Interior View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia" (1849); "Tales for the Marines" (1855); "Scampavias, from GibelTasek to Stamboul" (1857); "The Story of the Gray African Parrot" (1856), a book for children; and "Captain Brand of the Centipede" (1860).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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