There were lots of ways that a box could have found itself on the island, the most obvious being that it had been carried there by waves after it washed off the deck of a ship. He wasn’t an expert on beaches, but he suspected that waves could reach the ends of the sand; if they couldn’t, something would be growing there. Other beaches were littered with driftwood and other bits of detritus that had washed up, so why not this one?