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While standing on the verandah of their house, Dr. Sadao and Hana saw something black coming out of the mists. It was a man. He was flung up out of the ocean. He went unsteadily a few steps with his arms above his head. They saw that the man was on his hands and knees crawling.
Then they saw him fall on his face and lie there. Sadao ran quickly down the steps and Hana followed him. They came towards him and found him terribly wounded. The man lay motionless with his face in the sand. Sadao thought that he was perhaps a fisherman who was washed from his boat.
Dr. Sadao found that an old cap stuck to the wounded man’s head soaked with sea ‘ water. He was in wet rags of garments. When he turned the man’s head and saw the face they were shocked. Hana said in a whispering tone that it was a white man.
The wet cap of the white man fell away. They saw his long yellow hair. It seemed that for many months his hair had not been cut. From the white man’s cap, Sadao found that he was U.S. Navy’s sailor and thus was a prisoner of war. He had perhaps escaped and that is why he was wounded in the back.