Sheaman, Where Did He Go?

## Pronunciation

Internationally there are many different ways to say Sheaman and many different variations so this will clear some things up.

In Sheaman, Britain, Scandinavia and Germany most people pronounce is he-mon

In France predominantly, most of Europe and some Asian countries it's spelt "Il man" and pronounced "eel a mon."

In the United States it's usually pronounced he-man

Sheaman lived from 1662-1753 and lived a long life that was very emotional and secretive. He was born in France to a Spanish-British Father and a French mother. In 1678 he left his parents house and went to buy himself a small ship where he would begin serving the French navy due to being incredibly experienced for 16 years old. In 1681 he was tasked with an important mission to explore the oceans of the pacific and report back his findings however instead he found a new island which the French government colonized. In 1693 he was sent to prison and was sentenced to death in 1701 but somehow he manged to escape. This mystery was first professionally discussed between Jose Alcara and some of his friends how would later begin his research on Sheaman's life and how he escaped the prison cell he was in.

In March 1701 Sheaman somehow managed to escape prison and only was it in 1786 new information came out about Sheaman and what happened to him. then between 1786-1853 the person who found out new information about Sheaman and where he went spent his whole life into finding out where Sheaman went and what happened to him. His name was Jose Alcara who lived from 1770-1853 and was famous on his work on Sheaman by finding out his last resting location, his prison cell on the island and how he escaped.

In 1786 Jose found out that Sheaman had somehow escaped form his prison cell and lived on the island for almost 7 years without being found. This meant that he left the Isle of Sheaman in 1708 and sailed to the Philippines which was currently owned by the Spanish at the time. After reaching the Philippines he left the Philippines one year later in 1709 and went to Qing China where he quickly left and traveled through Russia and then into Prussia and by 1710 he ended up living in Prussia. He spent lots of his life writing in a journal that was discovered by Sir Thomas of England in 1876 in Berlin whilst visiting old housing properties to refurbish. he later went to Britain where he traveled from and presented it to Queen Victoria who sent it to the prime minister who revealed it to the public a couple months later in 1877.

After many years of writing in his journal about his life he finished his book in 1712 that he would end up never publishing due to him wanting to keep it as a secret for no apparent reason. Between 1712-1724 he would live without a social life and hardly interact with anyone but in 1725 he finally opened up his life again by the name of Herman and became a beloved person for telling stories about what happened to Sheaman and gathered many crowds. Many people believed his stories about a man who was poisoned and helped Sheaman escape his prison cell and how he escaped the island to the Philippines with just a boat and some food. He told these stories for many years until 1733 when people became suspicious of his identity and he was never seen again after that until he died in 1753.

Jose Alvcara was heavily invested in Sheaman's life and in 1793 found out where he exactly lived throughout his life and was proclaimed a genius by many history books. In 1798-1803 he studied how Sheaman may have escaped his prison cell but found nothing until he revisited his study in 1810 and found out that there was one guard at his cell all the time and eventually found out in 1818 that the guard had been poisoned and died with his hand in the jail cell with the keys in his hand. So In 1818 Jose officially found out how Sheaman had escaped the prison. Between 1836-1853 Jose tried to find Sheaman's journal and even though he never found the Journal he knew that it was in Berlin and that it was home to all the stories that Sheaman had told to the public.

So in the end Jose had found out almost everything he could about Sheaman and his research would be very important for future research on Sheaman such as when Sir Thomas found Sheaman's journal he wouldn't have found the book if it weren't for Jose's studies and research on Sheaman. or even Boris Maurice found out that Joseph Jacks was related to Sheaman in the 1950s he had to find out information about Sheaman written by Jose Alvcara.