Curious shipwrecked men.Concerning the recent arrival of Russians in Hokkaido, near La Perous Straits Straits: see Dardanelles; Bosporus. , a later report says that they were one Russian and 16 Turks, being convicts
A convict is a person who has been convicted of a crime. Convicts often become prisoners after a conviction. who have deserted from Saghalien. They reached Wakanal on the 18th and are being treated by the Japanese authorities as shipwrecked men. They are carrying with them fowling Fowling is a term which is perhaps better known in the Fens of eastern England than elsewhere. It was more than the commercial equivalent of the field sport of wildfowling, in that it includes all forms of bird catching for meat, feathers or any other part of the bird which may pieces and sword canes. From THE JAPAN GAZETTE, June 20th, 1905 |
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