Note 1 — Chapter XXVI
Reading edition
It may be interesting to readers to know that the adventure of the Slains Castle and the unexpected return of those who had been mourned as dead, is, in almost every detail, the true history of a British vessel called The Wandering Minstrel, which sailed from Hong Kong in 1887 and was not heard of again for more than two years, when her first mate and “a castaway” suddenly appeared in Honolulu, and a steamer was sent off to rescue the remainder of the party.