With reference, however, to the possibilities of survivors from the Normand being in some, or all, of the southern and western Janda, we can only now state facts, and leave it to the judgment of the Naval authorities to determine whether they should exercise the power solely in their possession and prosecute a search, From what follows it will be seen that everything local effort or exertion could do has been done, and only when it has become abso-lately palpable that further attempts on their part, with the only means at, command, must prove utterly impracticable have the rescue party, which left Formosa in the Sin Taitoan, been driven to abandon their cheerfully assumed work, and leave it to those who can, with comparatively little trouble, accomplish what remains to be carried out.
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