Graveyard of Scores of Vessels: Splendid Facilities for Modern Summer Resort Piracy, shipwreck, mutiny, fre at sea—these are just a few of the dramas that have been enacted around the Saddle Islands, (the near-fest of which lies about 30 miles from the mouth of the Yangtze),—since Shanghai was opened as a Treaty Port in 1843. This group of islands, about which most Shanghai people know very little, ig roughly six umber, not counting the many small Islets by which it is surrounded. The islands are inhabited by native fshermen, who live there all the year round, carrying on a simple but hardy' existence, and tilling their small plots of ground. Large quantlles of cuttle-fish are caught around the Islands. It 1s estimated that the North Saddle, one of the principal ands of the group, contains about 500 inhabitants, and' this particular {sland rises to 800 feet.
The only visitors are enthusiastic
tone of the many charming little Private yachtsmen, who anchor in inlets, and spend a long week-end exploring the islands; pilot cutters, she had lost her rudder, and had commenced to drift. At 630 am. the following day she again struck' the shore, and, as a very heavy sea was running, the ship began "to pound heavily, and was in danger of breaking up. At 8 am, a Chinese junk have alongside, but instead of pirate ing the ship as the captain expected, she offered to rescue the crew and take them to Shanghai. The. offer was gladly accepted, and the captain and crew arrived in Shanghai' the next day. The ship was lost.
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