Australia
Hayes arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia in January 1857 as captain of the C. W. Bradley, Jr. (which was the Canton, repurchased and renamed). Hayes married Amelia Littleton (he is believed to have earlier married in the United States).
The Singapore Ships chandlers caught up with Hayes in Perth, Australia and forced the sale of his ship and bankrupted him. Hayes escaped his creditors and in Melbourne, Australia he gains the command of a ship sailing to Vancouver, Canada. Hayes was thrown off the ship in Honolulu by the supercargo for swindling passengers. He proceeded to gain command of a new ship with a cargo obtained by fraud. Hayes sailed back across the Pacific, abandoning his wife Amelia in San Francisco. While Hayes would lose that ship in a storm and others to creditors, he always found new ships to command and new cargos to fraudulently acquire and sell. Between maritime adventures Hayes became a member of a blackface minstrel troupe in New South Wales, Australia.
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