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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
3
Local items report J McBride visiting Marysville and multiple trading and social notices. Businesses Reid & Co P Burns Co and Cosmopolitan Hotel feature sales, dinners, and stock. Cranbrook, Fort Steele, and Pincher Creek sources cited with visits, parties, and community events.
A narrator recounts a night on a remote island where Chinese sailors fear a sea witch after hearing a distant laugh. He shoots at a moving figure, believing it to be the witch, and discovers a severed white woman’s foot washed ashore, with sharks drawn by nearby blood.
A narrator recalls landing on the Palawan Islands in 1882 and discovering woman’s bare footprints on the shore. He searches nearby islets with a boy named Whang, finding no sign of inland travel or fresh water, suggesting the visitor washed ashore and wandered inland only briefly.
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