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Two men from the Pacific island of Kiribati, aged 53 and 26, went missing 33 days ago and landed in the island state of Marshall Islands, where they were picked up by US Coast Guard patrollers, the Daily Telegraph reported.

The men were reported to be sick and weak but in "reasonable condition."

"As odd as it may seem, the Marshall Islands hosts Kiribas drifters quite frequently," said the editor of the Marshall Islands Journal, Giff Johnson. "It's not that it happens all the time. Let's just say people from Kiribas are very hardy individuals. They get lost on a little boat and manage to persevere. It is an amazing thing."

The record for long drifting in recent years is supposedly a year, by three Mexican fishermen who left from San Blas in late 2005 and went drifting across the Pacific. They turned up, almost a year later more than 5000 miles away on Marshall Islands.

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兩男子漂流33天后獲救

?????? 據英國《每日電訊報》報道，太平洋島國基里巴斯兩名男子在太平洋上漂流33天后，近日在馬紹爾群島附近被美國海岸警衛隊救下。這兩名男子年齡分別為53歲和26歲。

?????? 目前兩人身體虛弱，但健康情況較穩定。

?????? 馬紹爾群島當地一家媒體的編輯格里夫?約翰遜說：“看起來似乎很奇怪，馬紹爾群島的基里巴斯漂流者相當常見，但也不總是發生這樣的事情。基里巴斯人非常堅強，他們的小船即使迷路，依然會堅持下去，這是令人感到驚奇的地方。”

?????? 近年來在海上漂流時間最長的記錄是一年，這是由3名墨西哥漁民創造的。他們2005年末從圣布拉斯離開，漂過太平洋。在近一年的時間內，他們航行了5000英里(約8000公里)，最后出現在馬紹爾群島。

(China.org.cn December 1, 2011)