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the island of Yap, while ou a voyage from Ulie to Fais, was overtaken 

 by a storm, and after drifting* a long time was cast ashore upon the 

 Aur group of the Radack chain. 1 Thus, the wind had driven the luck- 

 less voyagers a distance of 2,700 kilometers. 2 Kadu was taken on 

 board of the Kuril-, where Ohamisso especially interested himself 

 in him, and from the narratives of our man of Ulie noted a series of 

 similar cases which he himself deems reliable. An event precisely 

 analogous to this is the casting ashore of seafarers from Yap upon this 

 same group of Aur where Kadu was found. The latter distance even 

 exceeds the former by 300 kilometers. In Chamisso's time there were 

 also five natives of Lamotrek living on the southeastern side of the 

 Arno group, who had been borne there by the wind and currents. In 

 1857 people from Ulie were driven to the Marshall Islands in the same 

 way. 



It is not without some astonishment that we find ourselves in the 

 presence of this immense number of compulsory voyagers, since their 

 course is exactly opposite to what we should expect from the mechanical 

 movements of the waves and the wind in this group. In fact, there is 

 also no lack of accidental sea voyages in the contrary direction which 

 appear to us much more significant. Thus, Ohamisso met at Guakan a 

 native of Lamotrek who knew the names of Eadack and Kalick, and 

 this circumstance, though not with absolute certainty, indicates a cast- 

 away from the chain of islands farther westward. 3 



There is a noteworthy event which occurred about the year 1807, 

 when a boat was driven from Tuch to Guahan, that is, about 800 kilo- 

 meters, in a northwestern direction. 4 De Brosses gives two similar 

 instances from the letters of A. Canto va. 5 On the 11th of June, L721, 

 and two days later people from Faraulep who wished to go to Ulie, but 

 were driven about twenty days by wind and tempest, were stranded 

 here. 6 According to Cook, 7 who, in his third voyage, also mentions 

 these events, there were twenty-four people in the first boat, while the 

 latter contained only six. In the same way, during the previous year, 

 two canoes were swept from a distant island to one of the Marianne 

 group, but it is not stated whence they came. It is, however, certain 

 that in the period between 1760 and 1770, a boat from Yap, lying 800 

 kilometers toward the southwest, was cast ashore on the same island of 



'Reise urn die Welt, I, page 103. 



2 The estimate of the length of such voyages is especially unreliable, where months 

 are taken as the basis of the measurement of time. Kadu gave eight mouths; M. 

 Waitz (Anthropologie, I, p. 225, and V, p. 21), only five months are named. 



3 C'hamisso : Bemerkungen zur Reise urn die Welt, page 127. Quatrefages, page 

 105; Palmer, page 30. Bastian: Inselgruppen, page 101. 



■'Chamisso: Bemerkungen zur Reise um die Welt, page 140. 



ft De Brosses- Adeluug, page 553. 



Tbid., page 464. 



7 Cook: Third Voyage, I, page 254, note (Lettres e"dif. XV, pp. 196-215). In 

 Bnrney, where these two cases are mentioned, A.. Cantova's letter to d'Auberton is 

 given. 



