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were kept together, but in the day-time they separated as widely as was 

 prudent, to increase their chances of seeing a sail. On their perilous 

 voyage they encountered considerable severe weather, and passed the 

 islands where they intended to stop. When at length, after a voyage 

 of forty-five days, they landed at Sypan (one of the Ladrones), not one 

 of their number was able to stand. Here they caught birds and fish, 

 and obtained cocoanuts, but no water, and they again started, this time 

 for Tinian, distant about thirty miles. Arrived off there, the com- 

 mander refused to allow them to land, thinking they were pirates. He 

 even ordered his soldiers to fire upon them, but they finally convinced 

 him who they were, and he supplied them with bread and water. Four 

 days after they lauded at Guam, having sailed in their boats about 

 thirty-five hundred miles. 



On the 21st October, 1851, the ship Junius, of New Bedford, was lost on a 

 reef in Mozambique channel. The crew left the ship, unable to secure any 

 provisions save four salt hams. All but one boat's crew landed at Saint 

 Augustine Bay, about two hundred miles from the scene of their ship- 

 wreck, having been in their boats six days and nights without water and 

 with no food except the hams, which to men in their situation were worse 

 or but little better than no food. The missing ones were subsequently 

 rescued. 



The ship Logan, of ISew Bedford, was lost January 26, 1855, on Sandy 

 Island Reef. A boat-steerer and three men were drowned at the time. 

 The survivors lauded at the Feejee Islands after enduring much suffer- 

 ing. 



In 184G the ship Lawrence, of , was lost off the coast of Japan, 



and of the entire crew only the second mate and seven men reached the 

 shore alive. They were immediately seized by the Japanese and kept 

 for seventeen months in the most rigorous and barbarous custody, in 

 cages, dungeons, holds of junks, &c, and passed from port to port until 

 they reached Nangaski. On their journey they were exposed to all sorts 

 of ill-treatment, were threatened, insulted, and sometimes cruelly beaten. 

 One poor fellow who endeavored to escape these brutal captors was 

 cruelly put to death. At Nangaski the wretched remnant were com- 

 pelled to go through the ceremony of trampling on the cross or a repre- 

 sentation of it, in accordance with an edict adopted at the time of the 

 expulsion of the Portuguese some two hundred years before.* At the 



* The ship Manhattan, Budd, of Sag Harbor, had visited Jeddo less than twelve 

 mouths before to restore to their home 22 Japanese seamen whom they had rescued 

 from a wreck. They had been hospitably received, but warned not to come there again. 

 Vessels which have been classed as missing — as for instance the Lady Adams of Nan- 

 tucket in 1823 — have been last seen off that coast. If dire necessity drove their crews 

 upon that inhospitable shore, what scenes of barbarity may have been enacted in 

 which they were the struggling aud helpless victims ! (Note. — Although these ac- 

 counts of the Lawrence and Lagoda are current in the newspapers of the time and 

 even remembered indistinctly by whalemen who were near Japan, it has been impos- 

 sible to find these vessels among the whaling-lists before the alleged accideuts. — Tub 

 Author.) 



