The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-25

nary weather. and only fell back on
steam power in time of necessity,a COM
plete set of engines having been pro-
vided for that purpose. She had a car
go of / .545 tons of coal, a fact which re-
fleets somewhat on the school. The
captain and a few others being MEM
bers of the Yusen Kaisha, an official
of that company has been sent to the
scene of the disaster
The cruiser Musashi, lying at anchor
In the port of ShimiZn, has been ordered
by the Navy to go in search of the
Tsukijima Maru.
YOKOHAMA Dec. beyond the
identification of the remains of Capt.
Matsumoto, no other important discov-
cry has been reported so far from the
searching parties, for search is now GO
ing on at several places, both on land
and sea. One piece of news of some
Importance is that which reached the
Merchants Marine School on Saturday
last to the effect that the site of the
place where the wreck of the ship oc
CURED has been ascertained to be that
where the remains of the captain had
been found In other words, the place
of the disaster is judged to have been
Seno uni, for ii was there that the
captains remains were discovered by
the fishermen of ShiZu-ura, in the wa
! ter and not. as previously reported.
washed ashore. The Chuo's special COR
story which these fishermen told him
about the discovery of the corpse. Ac-
cording to that account, ii was in the
afternoon of the day following the gale
that those fishermen. numbering ten in
all, went to the Seno-umi shoal for fish
ing, only to discover that the place was
Uttered with broken spars and such
like things. few of which they picked
up. Soon one OF the fishermen detected a
corpse bobbing up close by the boat
and they thought that some big vessel
must have been wrecked whereabouts
Anyhow they decided to lift the corpse
up into their boat. and they proceeded
to do so, according to an interesting
custom faithfully adhered to by tn,
, fishermen living along the adjoinins
coast when they happen to come acros.
? a corpse at sea. I'm ShiZu-ura saic
2 'one of the fishermen with whom TN,
! correspondent in question had an in
(. 'terview, I'm ShiZu-ura it has been al
ways customary for the fishermen. whet
! they meet with human corpse at sea
> TO lift it up carefully, and in accord
; ance with a certain rite One of tb,
l. lshermen in a boat crawls into tb,
. mold. and another addresses the corps
I. In this way: Cant you give us a goo,
. . eaten! III you do We'll lift you up an,
u treat you very carefully" Then tn
:. man lin the hold has to answer thus
{ All right, / shall" This ceromon,
Il
y inshernen above mentioned. and the
: they lifted up the corpse of an un
Known gentleman, which they foun
. to be dressed in foreign garment an
That OF a man of fine appearance.
The fishermen searched the pocket
:, for anything that give clue to the iden
tity OF the unknown dead, but Their
- was nothing in them. The pious fisher
\, men We're not deceived, for that nigh
!. they got splendid catch, and i'm tn
~ evening OF the following day they re-
!. turned to Shizu-ura, with the corps
:, IN their boat. They reported the maj
- ter to the Village UIrice, and the mr.
known remains We're inferred with A.,
q ceremony on the 21st ult. Such was RI
= account which those fishermen fold ~
= correspondent of the Chuo about n
!. corpse Of Captain Matsumoto. whic
- was afterward identified by the decea,
e eds own wife.
70 FOREIGNERS IN JAPANESE EN-
is PLOY
r. YOKOHAMA, Dec. 14.-The loss
Is the Tsukishima Maru with all navig:
ton cadets on board, has suggested q
lie inquiry into the question of the en-
ie ployment of foreigners in the Japane
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