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Despite benign conditions and ample food, there were few visitors, and those who landed did so usually because they were shipwrecked.
She prompts the island's Princess Nausicaa to cajole her father into letting her drive a year's worth of dirty clothes all the way down to the water's edge in a big ox-drawn wagon, to spend the day with her maids washing and drying them on the beach, right where Athena knew she would find the shipwrecked Odysseus.
Historically, Ito was home for five years to William Adams, the Englishman shipwrecked on the shores of Kyushu in the early 17th century who became an advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
On the northern coast of Eleuthera Island is Preacher’s Cave, the spot where the original adventurers are said to have been shipwrecked.
Sir George Somers and his brave band of settlers were heading for Virginia in 1609 when they were shipwrecked on reefs just offshore from here.