ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. BT 
Lower California, in lat. 289 N., long, 116° W., and near Cedros Island. [See 
Alta, April 22, 1860.] 
Her planks were fastened together on the edges with spikes or bolts of a flat 
shape, with all of the head on one side. The seams were not quite straight, 
although the workmanship otherwise was good. That portion of the wreck in 
sight, was principally the bottom of the vessel, and gave evidence of having 
been a long time on shore. [Extract from Captain Scammon’s log.] 
31. In 1854, August 14th, just after Commodore Perry’s departure, the 
American ship Lady Pierce, Captain Burrows, arrived at Simoda from San 
Francisco via Honolulu June 2, 1854. She returned Diyonoské to Japan, who 
was the sole survivor of a crew of fifteen men, and was picked off from a 
drifting junk near the Hawaiian Islands, after being seven months helpless 
at sea. He had resided some time in San Francisco. 
32. In 1855, “aptain Brooks, in American brig Leverett, which arrived here 
from Ayan, Siberia, November 29th, picked up an abandoned junk in lat. 420 
N., long. 170° W., about 900 miles from the American Coast. 
33. In 1856, the American bark Messenger Bird, Captain Homer, reported 
a disabled junk at Guam, Ladrone Islands. 
34. In 1856, Captain Jno. C. Lawton, in the brig Prince de Joinville, while 
getting guano at Cedros and adjacent islands, reported a Japanese wreck, seen 
near Magdalena Bay. 
35. In 1858, the U.S. surveying schooner Fennimore Cooper, Lieut. John 
M. Brooke, U.S.N. commanding, sailed from Honolulu for a cruise along the 
chain of islands extending thence towards Japan. He had on board a Japan- 
ese seaman named Marsa-Kitchi, whom he landed at Kanagawa. The junk 
from which this man was taken, was disabled at sea while engaged in the 
coasting trade, and her crew were forced to put her before the wind, heading 
to the eastward, a direction in which they were forced against their will. To 
prevent drifting too rapidly, they lowered their anchor in the open sea to act 
as a drag, paying out their full length of cable, and thus allowed it to remain 
until it finally parted. 
36. In 1858, May 19th, the British ship Caribean, when in lat. 48° 40’ N;, 
long. 171° E., about 1,600 miles from the coast of Japan, fell in with a dis- 
masted junk, which had carried away her rudder, and had been about five 
months floating helplessly at sea. The captain, mate and ten seamen were 
rescued and brought to San Francisco, where they arrived June 7, 1858. 
They were cared for by Captain Winchester, who took them in the Caribean 
to Vancouver Island, whence he was bound for China, bnt having met a Brit- 
ish war vessel off Japan, the rescued men were transferred to her, and thus 
landed at a Japanese port. 
The junk was loaded with barley and rice, and barnacles two feet long were 
reported found upon the wreck. 
The British Government presented £400 to Captain Winchester as areward 
and in reimbursement of his necessary outlays. 
37. In 1859, the bark Gambia, Captain Brooks, found the remains of a 
Japanese junk on Ocean Island, lat. 28° 24’ N., long. 178° 21’ W. 
38, 39. In 1859, July 4th, the remains of two stranded junks, with lower 
