Appearing in the April 5, 1851 issue of the British journal Athenaeum was the story of a lost stranger calling himself Jophar Vourin. He was found wandering disoriented in a small village near Frankfurt, Germany, having no idea how he had arrived.

 

Along with speaking broken German, the traveller spoke and wrote in unknown languages he called "Laxarian" and "Abramian." He represented that he was from a country called "Laxaria" in an area of the globe called "Sakria", seperated from Europe by a vast ocean.

 

His purpose for travelling to Europe, he claimed, was to seek a long lost brother, but his last memory was of becoming shipwrecked somewhere along his voyage.