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place their rudder was disabled and they lost their mast and drifted out to 
sea. Fifty days later the wreck was fallen in with by the American bark Auk- 
land, Captain Jennings, who took off and brought the crew of 17 persons to 
San Francisco, in February, 1851. They were quartered on board the U. 8S. 
revenue cutter, and cared for by order of the Collector of the Port. Our citi- 
zens generally took much interest in them. The Japanese were subsequently 
embarked on the U. S. sloop St. Mary's and conveyed to Hongkong, where 
15 were transferred to the U. S. steamer Susquehanna to await the arrival of 
Commodore Perry and his expedition. Heco and the second mate, Toro, re- 
turned to San Francisco on the bark Sarah Hooper, reaching there in the 
autumn of 1852. Sentharo returned with Rev. Mr. Goble, from San Fran- 
cisco to Japan, and also Toro returned in the American bark Melita to Hako- 
daté from San Francisco, via Honolulu, April 19, 1859. 
Toro was for a while clerk with Wells, Fargo & Co., and Joseph Heco, 
clerk with Macondray & Co. Heco was subsequently appointed for duty on 
the United States Surveying Schooner Fennimore Cooper, about 1858-59, and 
left her at Honolulu, on account of sickness, but finally returned to Yedo, on 
the United States steamer Mississippi. [See Evening Bulletin, June, 1862. ] 
26. In 1850, April 22d, in lat. 45° N. long. 155° E., the American whale 
ship Henry Kneeland, Clark, master, fell in with a Japanese junk having 13 
persons on board. The vessel left Yedo for Kuno, but lost her rudder and 
was dismasted; then drifted to sea, and had been at the mercy of the winds 
and currents for sixty-six days, during forty of which they had subsisted on 
fish and snow water. The Captain and two seamen came to Honolulu on the 
H. K.; two of the crew were transferred to the Marengo; six were taken to 
Petropaulski and taken charge of by the Russian authorities, and two came 
to Honolulu by the Nimrod. [See Friend, October 15, 1850; also Friend, 
November 1, 1850. ] 
Notrr.—In 1851, by Japanese records I find that five Japanese seamen from 
Honolulu via China arrived at Nagasaki—probably the above. 
27. In 1851, a Japanese junk was cast away upon Atka Island, and only 
three of the crew survived. 
28. In 1852, April 15th, in lat. 31° N., long. 150° E., about 300 miles N. 
N. E. of Guam, Captain West, in the American whaleship Jsaac Howland, 
fellin with a small Japanese junk in ballast. The four men on board had 
but a little oil to sustain life, and were much emaciated. Their tiller was 
lashed, and the vessel having been forty-nine days out of their reckoning, the 
crew had given themselves up to die. Two of these men Captain West took 
to the Atlantic States, and two were transferred to an American whaler about 
to cruise in the vicinity of the Japanese Islands. 
29. In March, 1853, the American ship John Gilpin, Captain Doane, passed 
a water-logged wreck of a junk, her deck awash with the water, in lat. 18° 
—’'N., long. 145° —’ E., just beyond Pagan and Grigan Islands. Large 
numbers of fish were around the wreck. There were no survivors on board. 
She had every appearance of having been a very long time in the water. 
30. In 1853, Captain C. M. Scammon discovered the wreck of a Japanese 
junk, on the southwest or largest of the San Bonito group of Islands, off 
