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firmly refused to allow their countrymen to land. They were subsequently 
returned to Siberia. , 
7. Among items of history mentioned in Japanese records, I find that in 
October, 1804, a Russian frigate commanded by Capt. Krusenstern, conveying 
Count Resanoff, as Ambassador of the Czar, brought back to Nagasaki five 
Japanese seamen, being part of a crew of fifteen rescued from a stranded junk; 
the other ten preferred to remain in Siberia. 
8. In 1805, a Japanese junk was wrecked on the coast of Alaska, near 
Sitka; the seamen were quartered on Japonski Island, whence they were 
taken by the Russians, and finally landed on the Coast of Yeso in 1806. 
9. In 1812, Capt. Ricord, commanding the Russian sloop-of-war Diana, 
took seven Japanese, six of whom were seamen recently shipwrecked in a 
junk on the coast of Kamschatka, in the hope of exchanging them for seven 
captive Kussians, confined in Japan. Being unable to land, they were 
returned to Kamschatka, reaching there October 12th. The Diana made a 
second attempt, and finally succeeded August 16th, 1813, in landing these 
Japanese at Kunashie Bay, the 20th Kurile, and effected the liberty of the 
Russian Capt. Golownin and his associates. 
10. In 1813, the Brig Forrester, Captain John Jennings, when in latitude 
49° N., longitude 128° W., rescued the captain and two seaman from a dis- 
masted junk, timber laden, when 18 months from Yeso, bound to Niphon. 
Thirty-five men were on board, of whom thirty-two died of hunger. They 
were delivered to the Russians, who undertook to return them to Japan. 
11. Captain Alexander Adams, formerly pilot at Honolulu, relates that 
March 24, 1815, in latitude 32° 45° N., longitude 126° 57’ W., when sailing 
master of brig Forrester, Captain Piggott, and cruising off Santa Barbara, Cal- 
ifornia, he sighted at sunrise a Japanese junk drifting at the mercy of the 
winds and waves. Her rudder and masts were gone. Although blowing a 
gale, he boarded the junk, and found fourteen dead bodies in the hold, the 
captain, carpenter, and one seaman alone surviving; took them on board, 
where by careful nursing they were well in a few days. They were on a voy- 
age from Osaka to Yedo, and were 17 months out, having been dismasted in 
consequence of losing their rudder. 
12. In 1820, a junk was cast upon Point Adams, the southern shore of the 
mouth of Coluinbia river. The vessel, which was laden with wax, went to 
pieces, and the crew, many in number, landed safely. 
13. A junk was wrecked on Queen Charlotte’s Island, in 1831. 
14. December 23, 1832, at mid-day, a junk in distress cast anchor near the 
harbor of Waialua, on the shores of Oahu. She was from a southern port of 
Japan, bound to Yedo with a cargo of fish; lost her rudder and was dismasted 
in a gale, since which she had drifted for eleven months. Five out of her 
crew of nine had died. December 30th, she started for Honolulu, but was 
stranded on a reef off Barber’s Point on the evening of January 1, 1833. 
The four survivors were taken to Honolulu, where, after remaining eigh- 
teen months, they were forwarded to Kamschatka, whence they hoped to 
work their way south through the northern islands of the group into their 
own country. This junk was about 80 tons burden. According to the tra- 
