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firmly refused to allow their countrymea 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 Eesanoff, 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 Russians, 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 eff'ected 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 1283W., 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 thirtj^-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 320 45' N., longitude 1260 57' W., when sailing 

 master of brig Forrester, Captain Piggott, and cruising ofi" Santa Barbara, Cal- 

 ifornia, he sighted at sunrise a Japanese junk drifting at the mercy of the 

 winds and waves. Her rudder aud 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 V03'- 

 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 Columbia 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- 



