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Stories of the Drifting [3] (Kyushu Nichinichi Shimbun [newspaper])

● Stories of the Drifting (*Part 3)
I planned to stay for a few months on Koba Island (Uotsuri Island), where I would engage in the two businesses of catching birds and fishing, but for some reason my financial backers in Yaeyama did not send the fishing gear they had originally promised. (text omitted)/ Again left Yaeyama for Koba Island (text omitted)
By the 4th day, we lost our bearings with no island spotted, and we felt extremely helpless while having decided to let ourselves go with the flow of the ship.

Document title Stories of the Drifting [3] (Kyushu Nichinichi Shimbun [newspaper])
Date created (Western calendar) October 11, 1893
Date created (Japanese era) October 11, Meiji 26
Author(s) / Editor(s)
Publisher Kyushu Nichinichi Shimbunsha
Name of publication Kyushu Nichinichi Shimbun [newspaper] dated October 11, 1893
Content The 3rd 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 Microfilm
Copies 1
Reference No. S1893101100102
Reference & information Follow the instruction at the Newspaper Reading Room of the National Diet Library to see microfilm
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