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A PECULIAR sound, apparently similar to the “soughing of the wind” (see p. 78, ante), is briefly described by Liu Wan-Ping, a Chines Commodore, in his journal of voyage made in 1595 from Cheh-Kiang to Shan-Tung, in order to defend the latter province from the attack by the Japanese fleet. (Sie Tsai-Kang's “Wu-tsah-tsu,” Japanese edition, tom. iv. fol. 46, a.) The passage is as follows: “Same night we anchored near Fuh-Shan-tàu ‘in Shan-Tung]. This mountain, as if inhabited by a deity, utters a voice sounding mournfully, although on it neither herb nor tree exists, and neither hollow nor cavern therein.”
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MINAKATA, K. Remarkable Sounds. Nature 53, 414 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053414d0
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