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board died upon the wreck, and the captain of the junk died on the steamer 

 after being rescued. They were cared for by Mr. Brooks, who returned them 

 to Yokohama, July 1, 1871, and the government presented suitable rewards. 



52. In 1871, the Japanese juuk Jinko-maru, of Matsaka, of 180 kokus 

 measurement, encountered a severe gale January 18, 1871, while going from 

 Ise to Kumano, during which she lost her rudder, and while in danger of 

 foundering cut away her masts. The junk drifted from the coast of Japan in 

 the Kuro Shiwo for 2,500 miles in a helpless condition, her crew keeping a fire 

 and living on rice, and fish they speared, until they drifted on the rocks at 

 Atka, July 10th, 1871, where, by means of ropes, the three men on board 

 landed safely. There they remained until September 19th, 1871, when they 

 took passage by schooner H. 3f. Hutchmion for Ounalaska and San Francisco, 

 whence they were returned to Japan by the Consul. 



53. In 1873, Captain W. B. Cobb, in steamer China, rescued the crew 

 from a wrecked junk in lat. — O — ' N., long. — o — ' E., and landed them at 

 Yokohama, in acknowledgment for which the usual present was made him by 

 the Japanese government. 



54. A junk has been reported as stranded on the coast of Alaska. 



55. A junk was cast upon the windward side of Kauaii, one of the Hawa- 

 iian Islands, and the survivors landed at Hanalei harbor. 



56. An old resident of Petropaulski informed me there was a Japanese 

 junk stranded below that harbor, previous to 1812, where many years since 

 the wreck still remained. Six of the crew survived, 



57. A Japanese wreck was sighted adrift below San Diego. Reported in 

 the Alta. 



58. A junk was wrecked at Nootka Sound, 



59. In 1875, April 6th, in lat. 38^ 02'N., long 164= 38' E., American ship 

 Game Cock, Capt. T, C. Stoddard, fell in with the Japanese junk Wocmohi- 

 maru, of about 80 tons, dismasted, with her stern stove and rudder gone, 

 and generally in a helpless condition, and rescued therefrom twelve Japanese 

 seamen. The junk was bound from Hakodate to Tokio, with a cargo of salt 

 fish and sea-weed, when on December 3d they were blown off shore in a 

 severe gale, December 10th they again made the land, when another heavy 

 gale commenced and blew the junk off again, December 19th was forced to 

 cut away the mast to save the hull. December 22d raised a jury mast and 

 got under way, sailing towards Japan whenever the wind permitted; at other 

 times took in sail and drifted. By their reckoning, they estimate having 

 thus sailed 1500 miles west, principally with northeast winds, when, April 

 5th, in a bad sea, they carried away rudder, and soon after stove stern. At 

 8 A.M. the following day, they abandoned the wreck, from which they were 

 rescued by the Game Cock, and landed at San Francisco April 28th, and were 

 returned to Japan by Mr. Takaki May 1st, per Great Repuhlic. For the rescue 

 and kind treatment of these men, the Japanese Government presented Capt. 

 Stoddard with a gold chronometer watch through His Excellency Yoshida 

 Kiyonari, their Minister at Washington. 



60. In 1876, July 3d, in lat. 37^ 10' N., long. 167= 35' E., British barque 

 Abhy Coicper, Capt. Nelson, fell in with the Japanese junk Eoki-maru, of 

 Otaru, island of Yeso, of 477 kokus government measurement, equivalent to 



