Why did the sailors who went to Pattay Island to escape, stay and live on the island?

Because some of the ships of the Chinese sailors were damaged by the reefs, they could not return to their hometown in time, and it would be very difficult to repair the ships on the island, so instead of getting lost in the sea, which would put them in danger, they chose to go to the island to live for a while. But this is also a legend about this island, and there is no record of such an aspect in the real historical facts. But it is also possible that they climbed up to the island during the destruction of the ships, when they were extremely eager to survive.

And it is said that the sailors who fled to the island were part of the Chinese team of Zheng He who traveled to the West China Sea, and the ships were Chinese merchant ships, and in the end, the residents who fled from the ships to survive on the island were about 20 people. The reason for the lack of history on the island is that the Chinese landed on the island and brought prosperity to the inhabitants, but the Portuguese colonization of the area led to internal conflicts in the village. The tribal struggles destroyed some traces of the Chinese settlement on the island, so it was difficult to verify this fact during the subsequent expeditions.

But I think the sailors who went to this place to escape settled on the island, may also be because the island's supplies are relatively rich, and at that time they repaired the ship in time to estimate is not capable of returning to the voyage, because in the return to the voyage is a need for a lot of food, and to have some convenient tools. But the inhabitants of this small island and society have been disconnected, with the use of some of the tools above is also very lack of, so let them from the island to leave is more difficult than the sky is a thing.

Even if they had the ability to build boats, they could only go to nearby islands, and could not successfully take them back to their original places, but also make their lives suffer the threat of the sea again, so they did not choose to leave, but to live on the island for a long time.