Be this at it may, it would certainly have been most wild and foolhardy to dream of going on further with the search in the prevailing weather, and with the small and low-powered craft that was alone at disposal of the rescue patty. The islands to which I allude appear to be more or less in the direct lino of the forces that brought the rescued men on the Patchao, that is for those from the Normand, though it, would be almost unkind to hold out hopes of any more survivors from the Bokhara having been washed ashore there, teamer was wrecked on Sand Island, ap well to the north and eastward of Fisher Island, forming with other islands andreefs the boundary of the sheet of water enclosed by Fisher Island on the west and Pong-Hao on the east. All wreckage of drifting matter from the Bokhara would, (as indeed actually occurred) fetch up on one or other of these more northern islands, and could scarcely be carried further, whereas those from the Normand, wrecked onthe Channel side of Fisher Island, would naturally follow the southern course taken by the men and wreckage picked up at Patchao. I enter into these details in order to avoid as far as I can, rousing hopes impossible of realisation, or doing anything likely to intensify the anxiety and grief of ved, whether relatives or -|friends, by creating a suspense wi seems too probable can only be terminated in one way.
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