anaheim-gazette 1889-06-27

DRIFTED JUNKS. RECORD OF JAPANESE WRECKS IN THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. A List of Oriental Castaways That Hame from 1617 to 1881—Tales of Awful suffering by the Shipwrecked—A Voyage of Seventeen Months. Among the many theories that are set up to explain the original settlement of the North American continent that which describes it to the enforced visitation of some storm driven Japanese fishermen meets with much favor. Without recounting the various arguments that are based on architectural, physical and philosophical similarities between the alberines of the Pacific coast of the New World and the old races of the Orient, it may be said that the shipwrecked sailor has many plausible features to recommend it. Charles Walcott Brooks, who was a firm believer in this theory, devoted much attention to the subject, and certainly proved three things. First, that the number of wrecked junks that have been reported in one way or another exceeded a hundred second, that every junk found adrift or stranded on the North American coast has proved to be Japanese; third, that their presence is due to the existence of the Kuro Shimo or Japanese stream, which sweeps northward past Japan toward the Alentian Islands, hence curving around and passing south along the coast of Alaska, Oregon and California. The first record of storm driven junks goes as far back as 1617, when mention is made in an old Spanish book of a Japanese boat being at Acapulco. Usually however, the junks were driven north rather than south, stranded Japanese vessels being reported on the coast of Kamchatka in 1904, 1905, 1710 and 1720, so in 1722 a Japanese pink war wrecked upon the Alentian Islands in 1866 a Japanese junk was wrecked on the coast of Alaska, and in 1812 and 1813 two others were run over by Russian sleeps in similarly high latitudes. The first reported wreck of the sort which came to the California coast occurred in 1825. On the 21st of March in that year the brig Forrester Capt. Dugett was cruising off Santa Barbara when he sighted a Japanese junk drifting at the mouth of the whirlpool and waves. Her rudder and masts were gone. Although blowing a gale she boarded the junk, and found fourteen dead bodies in the hold, the captain carenter and one woman alone surviving. They were on a voyage from Orkaka to Yokohama and were seventeen months out. In 1829 a junk was cast upon Point Adams, the southern shore of the mouth of the Columbia, and in 1831 another was wrecked on the coast of Washington Territory, in the immediate vicinity of Cape Flattery. Many of her crew had perished and several dead bodies were bound up in fikkins in the customary Japanese style, ready for burial. In 1830 a Japanese junk of about forty tons was driven on the Bonin islands, while in Many of her crew had perished and several dead bodies were boarded up in fikins in the customary Japanese style ready for burial. In 1850 a Japanese junk of about forty tons was driven on the Bonin islands, while in 1845 the United States frigate St. Louis took from Mexico to Ningpo three shipwrecked Japanese survivors of a junk crew which had drifted from the coast of Japan entirely across the Pacific ocean. In 1845 Capt. Cooper of the whale ship Manhattan rescued seven shipwrecked Japanese from a little island near Niphoon and a few days after received several more from a sinking junk. Rescue of a similar character were made in 1847, 1848, and 1850, and then in February, 1851, seventeen shipwrecked Japanese were brought to San Francisco by Capt. Jennings, of the dark Auckland, the junk from when they were taken having been drifting about in mid-ocean since the fall of the previous year. So the record goes on to 1856, until sixty cases are enumerated. Of these four were from 1839 to 1841, three from 1719 to 1722, six from 1804 to 1830, eleven from 1831 to 1838, and thirty-six from 1820 to 1876. This apparent increase during the last mentioned period is not owing to their increased number, but solely to the fact that the increase of commerce on the Pacific has distributed there a large fleet whose presence has materially increased the chances of rescue to disabled vessels and the likelihood of receiving reports from stranded wrecks. Taking up the record from where Mr. Brooks dropped in 1856 it is seen that since and including that year only six cases have been reported, and none all since 1851. The reason for this decrease lies in the fact that Japan has recently awakened to the necessity of improving the models of her vessels and adopting those with sea going qualities. The Chronicle of Wednesday, August 16, 1856 contains the following story, which was well entitled "A Horror of the Sea." "The Emma Utter arrived in port yesterday evening Aug. 15, bringing a statement made by Capt. Nelson, master of the British bark Abby Cowper, which described an encounter he had with a phantom ship on the preceding day of July. He says that on that day he was in latitude 37.10 north, longitude 167.50 east with light winds, when a haul was discovered drifting in a southasterly direction, dismasted and with signals flying. He is rebound upon her and an officer was sent aboard who found that she was the Japanese junk Cooke Opunam, bound from Hainan to Yokohama, and that she had left the former port on Nov. 9, 1855. Her crew formerly consisted of twelve men, but two of whom were alive. They were removed to the Abbey Cowper and everything possible was done for them. One of the men was entirely helpless being nearly dead with the survey, while his companion, although not so bad, was still in a deplorable condition, and was barely able to climb aboard. The wretched man had been drifting more dead than alive for six months, and as one by one their companions had succumbed to that frightful disease, survey, they had been salted and stewed away in the hold, which emitted a horrible stench. At the time they were found they had been without the means of making a fire for some time, having used everything that was available for that purpose." Her crew formerly consisted of twelve men, but two of whom were alive. They were removed to the Abbey Cowper and everything possible was done for them. One of the men was entirely helpless, being nearly dead with the survey, while his companion, although not so bad, was still in a deplorable condition, and was barely able to climb aboard. The wretched men had been drifting more dead than alive for six months, and as one by one their companions had succumbed to that frightful disease, survey, they had been salted and stowed away in the hold, which emitted a horrible smoke. At the time they were found they had been without the means of making a fire for some time, having used everything that was available for that purpose long before, and were sustaining an existence with nothing but dry rice and what fish they caught. Their supply of water had been long exhausted, and they were obliged to depend on what they could save whenever it rained. The wretched survivors would ere long have perished as had their fellow sufferers, and the fate of the vessel would in all probability never have been known but for this timely discovery, for even if the men had been able to sustain life in such a horrible manner, still the vessel would have soon gone to the bottom, as she was a complete wreck." San Francisco Chronicle. 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