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Lower California, in lat. 28CN., long. 1160 W., and near Cedros Island. [See 

 Alta, April 22, I860.] 



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 ^^*reckin 

 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 Diyonoske 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, Captain Brooks, in American brig Leverett, which arrived her 

 from Ayai), 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 Fennlmore 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 

 drevent 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. Ina858, May 19th, the British ship Caribean, when in lat. 43- 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 Carihean 

 to Vancouver Island, whence he was bound for China, but having met a Brit- 

 ish war vessel off Japan, the rescued men were transferred to her, and thus 

 lauded 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 a reward 

 and in reimbursement of his necessary outlays. 



37. In 1859, the bark <ianibia. 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 



