and make the group of Batan Islands, which are the most northerly of the Philippines. The weather, however, proved their undoing. Their enforced Stay In Formosa lost them the chance to cross the Bashi Channel under favourable conditions, The south-west monsoon had set in, they encountered tremendous seas and for five days, buffeted and battered, their rudder broken, and their craft continually Jeaking, they drifted helplessly out into the Pacific. On the third day, whilst, in this helpless plight, they sighted an all-tanker, Their food was running short and they did overything in their power to attract attention. "She lay about. th four miles distant," Mr, Reuben said.
could see her outline plainly, but she, either did not or would not soe later, with their rudder patched up with ropes, and the seas having abated, they limped into a safe anchorage off the island of Calayan. There they remained six ays, effecting repairs to the boat and taking in fresh water, The Island of Women From Calayan they crossed to the island of Babyuan, reputed to have twenty women to every mar found that to be a fallacy Reuben said. ("Actually there are about 150 inhabitants, and the women fare in the greater proportion by two to one." They ascertained the story was correct about 45 years ago, when the majority of male children born
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