Word: babuyan
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...Released in Formosa were three adventurers arrested last fortnight. William Shinn Gates, 28, Annapolis graduate who was retired from the U. S. Navy for his health, wanted to look for treasure and see whether the women of the Babuyan Islands really outnumbered the men 20 to 1. With a German named Wrede and a Russian named Roubin, he was arrested at Taito, Formosa, because their ketch The Flying Dutchman was blown ashore suspiciously near two Japanese war boats in the Taito harbor. This looked to the Japanese like a real threat but it soon fell apart and the three were...
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