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THE " KURO SIWO. " I!H
one of the little rocky
wooded islands that lie
round the har bour. The
stranger was found to
be the dismasted, waterlogged
hull of a J apa- DRI>'TII:D RY THE KURO SIWO.
nese junk. Strange to say , there were ten or twelve
J apanese on board , still alive, though nearly dead from
exposure and famine.
5. The junk had been dismusted in a tempest,
while on a voyage from one J apanese port to anoth er,
and had drifted steadily north-eastward in the Kw ro
Siuio, which sets constantly and strongly from the
coasts of China and J apan across the Pacific toward
America. There are also tradit ions that, on two
former occasions, J apanese or Chinese junks have
drifted to the coast of America further southward.
How many times such accidents ma.)' have occurred
ill the past no one knows.
6. Many people believe that th e I ndian tribes of