A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

280 Japanese Miscellany
charge of the Yaidzu captain, — giving him a
written order.
" Altogether, it was about a month from the
time of the loss of the Fuhuju Maru when I re-
turned to Yaidzu. We reached the harbor at
night ; and I did not go home at once : it would
have frightened my people. Although no certain
news of the loss of our ship had then been re-
ceived at Yaidzu, several things belonging to her
had been picked up by fishing-craft ; and as the
typhoon had come very suddenly, with a terrible
sea, it was generally believed that the Fukuju
Maru had gone down, and that all of us had
been drowned. . . . None of the other men were
ever heard of again. ... I went that night to
the house of a friend ; and in the morning I sent
word to my parents and brother ;
for me. . . .
and they came
" Once every year I go to the temple of Kom-
pira in Sanuki: all who have been saved from
shipwreck go there to give thanks. And 1 often
go to the temple of Jizo-Sama of Ogawa. If
you will come with me there to-morrow, I will
show you that plank."