JAPANESE ROBINSON CRUSOE.
SEVENTEEN YEARS ON A LONELY; .: r .»* ISLAND. / Honolulu, April B.—The steamer China brings from Nagasaki a story of a rescued Japanese Robinson Crusoe after seventeen years of solitary life on a deserter! island near Gcnsan, off Corea. : .The Japanese master of a fishing schooner first discovered* the man on what was supposed to'be an uninhabited island, but -he was afraid to take him off as he looked like some wild annual with shaggy hair-. ' ..--,■ .a.: J. ,• He reported the case -r to the Japanese Government and a torpedo boat was sent to the island. The man was brought back to Nagasaki, but it was some days before he could speak a word, and his mind anpeared nearly gone. He lived entirely on seaweed and fish. He had no tools or iron implements of any kind. - "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11986, 7 June 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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