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Castaway Rescued After Seventeen Years

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 23, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 17.

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Castaway Rescued After Seventeen Years

A JAPANESE torpedo boat has just rescued from a deserted island off the coast of Korea a man who had been cast away on that island and lived there alone for seventeen years, subsisting on seaweed and fish. When rescued, he had nearly lost the power of speech.