COMPULSORY MIGRATIONS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 521 



brought there by a similar accident. It might be supposed that 

 inhabitants of the Philippine Islands would also have been carried to 

 the Pelew Islands, but this conjecture is not confirmed. There is not 

 a single instance of such a compulsory voyage, but there are transac- 

 tions which can explain this phenomenon. These are the futile efforts 

 made by the Spaniards to reach the Pelew Islands from the Philip- 

 pines, which are related by De Brosses and Burney ' from the travels 

 of Franciscus Padilla. The first effort of the Spaniards to discover 

 the "New Philippines" occurred in 1707, after a shipwreck suffered by 

 some of the inhabitants of these islands, whereby they became known. 2 

 But this was frustrated, as were also four other attempts, which were 

 undertaken in the years 1708, 1710, 1711, and 1729. The first time auy 

 one succeeded in sailing from the Philippines to the Pelew Islands' 

 was in 173], These noteworthy circumstances teach us the close con- 

 nection existing between accidental voyages, and thus also the migra- 

 tions of the Oceanic peoples, and the mechanical movements of the 

 Avind and the sea. 



There are, however, instances of vessels being swept from more 

 southern regions to the Pelew Islands. Captain Wilson, after his ship- 

 wreck in the year 1738, found at Pellilu a Malay who, with six compan- 

 ions, had been carried thither from Tern ate in the Celebes. 1 Dumont 

 D'Urville also mentions this case. 5 A thoroughly analogous event 

 happened, according to Johnson's statement, in the year 1859 and in 

 the following one, when two boats from Salibago were driven upon the 

 northwestern side of the Pelew Islands. The crews landed at the vil- 

 lage of Aibukit, and Kubary afterwards found one of the castaways still 

 there. 6 Micklucho-Maclay, during his brief stay in Yap and Pelew, 

 also frequently met persons from other islands who had been cast away 

 on them; for instance, he found on the main island, Baobel-taop, in the 

 village of Malogiok, a man from Bui, on the northern coast of Celebes, 7 

 who made his voyage in eighteen days. 



In the first group is one of the most remarkable and at the same 

 time also the best known voyage which is related of Kadu. The Rus- 

 sian captain, O. v. Kotzebue, 8 met him on the island of Aur. Chamisso, 

 Kotzebue's traveling companion, was induced by this singular case to 

 pay special attention to compulsory migrations. Kadu was a native 

 of the Ulie Islands, and with two of his countrymen and an inhabitant of 



1 History of the Discoveries. 



2 De Brosses- Adelnng, page 429 and following. 



:! E. Butron de la Serna, in Bol. Soc. Geogr., Madrid, 1885, page 23, and Lettrcs des 

 Missions, X and XL 



4 Semper: Pelew Islands, Supplement 11. Lesson: Les. Polyn. et leur migrations, 

 I, page 369. 



6 Voyage an pole sud et dans l'oceanie, V, page 208. 



6 F. Ratzel : Volkerknnde, II, page 310 and following. 



'Ibid. 



8 Reise um die Welt, I, page 103. 



