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Stories of the Drifting [2] (Kyushu Nichinichi Shimbun [newspaper])

● Stories of the Drifting (*Part 2)
We arrived at Yonaguni, loaded up with rice and other provisions and departed from there at 1 o'clock in the afternoon on the 9th, arriving safely at Koba Island (*Uotsuri Island) at around 8 in the following morning on the 10th. The most numerous were albatrosses and brown boobies.
Seen from afar, it was as if the whole island was clad around in white paper, with albatrosses everywhere.

Document title Stories of the Drifting [2] (Kyushu Nichinichi Shimbun [newspaper])
Date created (Western calendar) October 10, 1893
Date created (Japanese era) October 10, Meiji 26
Author(s) / Editor(s)
Publisher Kyushu Nichinichi Shimbunsha
Name of publication Kyushu Nichinichi Shimbun [newspaper] dated October 10, 1893
Content The 2nd part of an interview with Yakita IZAWA, who went to the Senkaku Islands as a migrant worker and was drifted.
Language Japanese
Public access Open
Repository National Diet LibraryNew Window
Medium
Copies 1
Reference No. S1893101000102
Reference & information Follow the instruction at the Newspaper Reading Room of the National Diet Library to see microfilm
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