Quelpaert

English Alternative forms en Quelparte Quelpart Etymology A name applied by Q1191559 and used in Europe. Proper noun en obsolete Jeju, en an island c/South Korea. en 1653 The Faber Book of Exploration https://archive.org/details/faberbookofexplo0000alle/ w:Faber and Faber 2002 9780571206124 59544357 44 https://archive.org/details/faberbookofexplo0000alle/page/44/ A Dutch Vessel, in the year 1653, being bound from Batavia to Japan, after suffering a most violent Storm of several days continuance, springing a Leak so wide that there was no means to drain the Water that rush’d into the Hold, several that happen’d to be then under Deck were drowned before they could get up, and each Man betaking himself to his shifts, 36 (of 64 that they were in all) got ashore upon the Island of Quelpaert, and those too severely bruised and hurt in saving themselves from the terrible Fate of their more unfortunate Companions. en 1885 William Elliot Griffis William Elliot Griffis The Kind Corean Governor Corea, Without and Within: Chapters on Corean History, Manners and Religion with Hendrick Hamel's Narrative of Captivity and Travels in Corea, Annotated https://archive.org/details/coreawithoutwith00grif_0/ 2nd Philadelphia Presbyterian Board of Publication 4441791 48 https://archive.org/details/coreawithoutwith00grif_0/page/48/ At night they gave us more rice to eat ; and our master, having made an observation, found we were in the island of Quelpaert, which is thirty-three degrees thirty-two minutes of latitude.