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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

Watson asks Holmes to explain the person whose name he has written on the envelope. How did the investigation lead him so far? Which records did he follow, and in what order? Holmes takes a paper covered with notes from his pocket and begins to describe the path of his inquiry throughout the day.

"And who is this Captain Calhoun?"「それで、そのカルフーン船長とは誰なんだい」
"The leader of the gang.「一味の首領だ。
I shall have the others, but he first."ほかの者も捕らえるが、まず彼だ」
"How did you trace it, then?"「では、どうやって突き止めたんだ」
He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with dates and names.彼はポケットから、日付と名前で埋まった大きな紙を取り出した。
"I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers and files of the old papers, following the future career of every vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in '83.「一日じゅう」と彼は言った。「ロイズの船舶記録簿や古い新聞の綴りを調べ、八三年の一月と二月にポンディチェリーへ寄港した船を、残らずその後の足取りまで追った。
There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were reported there during those months.その二か月に、相当な積載量のある船は三十六隻記録されていた。
Of these, one, the Lone Star, instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to one of the states of the Union."そのうちローン・スター号という一隻が、すぐ私の注意を引いた。ロンドンから出港したとされていたが、その名は合衆国の一州に付けられた名だからだ」