In some way he must have lived during the interval. and longitude 105° E., and reappeared in the same part of the ocean after a space of eleven months. There is at least this much in its behalf: my uncle passed out of human knowledge about latitude 5° S. With that understood, there seems no harm in putting this strange story before the public in accordance, as I believe, with my uncle’s intentions. So that this narrative is without confirmation in its most essential particular. A party of sailors then landed, but found nothing living thereon except certain curious white moths, some hogs and rabbits, and some rather peculiar rats. The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble’s Isle, a small volcanic islet and uninhabited.
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