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On Wikipedia it says he was playing William Tell with his brother, who missed.

In a collection of stories, however, the foreword says he gallantly offered to make breakfast of a ship after the cook was arrested and put stump powder in the pancakes, which exploded, destroying the galley and half the hull. Believe what you wish.

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