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lying about a mile off the east side of Matau. 
They had one hunting-boat and a small dinghy. 
After being some time on the island, the Japanese 
boatmen became dissatisfied, and one night cleared 
out with the hunting-boat, taking with them some 
rice and other provisions. It was supposed they 
had gone over to the main island. Gannon was 
laid up ill at the time. Nebbe waited for a fine spell 
of weather, and then pulled over to the main island 
to try to find and bring back the Japanese. He 
expected to find them in the old deserted Ainu 
village on the other side of the island. He got 
across safely, and hauled the dinghy well up under 
the cliffs, and then went to the other side of the 
island (about three miles), where he found traces 
of the Japanese, but neither man nor boat was in 
sight. He made his way back to where he had 
landed, only to find his boat had been smashed by 
a snow-slide. There was nothing for him to do but 
return to the old village and take up his quarters 
there, all he had with him being his rifle and some 
ammunition. There he remained several weeks, 
subsisting on limpets and seaweed, and occasionally 
getting a sea-fowl of some kind with his rifle. 
Finally, becoming desperate, he resolved to try to 
get across to Puffin Island somehow in the broken 
dinghy, which he succeeded in doing, with great 
difficulty, on a calm, fine day. 
On entering the yurt he was greeted with a 
frightened yell from his companion, who rose up 
in his bunk, grabbed his rifle, and pointed it at him. 
But the sick man quieted down on being assured 
it was Nebbe himself, and not his ghost. He had 
spent a miserable time, and was too weak to move 
