1830

Europeans from Oahu settle on Chichijima

  • Feb 26, 2025

In 1830, five westerners from the Sandwich Islands (present-day Hawaii), together with a group of native men and women from the Sandwich Islands arrived on the Ogasawara Islands. One of the Americans was Nathaniel Savory, who, after settling on the island grew sweet potatoes, from which he also distilled rum, which he used to trade with the whaling ships that would visit the Ogasawara Islands. Upon the visit of Perry in 1853, Savory was the sole survivor. (Ref. 1, 2)

Ref.1：Francis L. Hawks (compiled by), Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1856, p.200.

Ref.2：“Partial translation in Japanese, Peruri Nihon Kiko (Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the Government of the United States), vol. 10, Section of uninhabited islands,” Historical records of the Ogasawara Islands, vol. 31

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Ref.1：R.D. Eldridge, Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands in U.S.-Japan Relations, (in Japanese translation), Kagoshima: Nanpo Shinsha, 2008, pp. 33-35.

Ref.2：Tanaka Hiroyuki, Bakumatsu no Ogasawara (Ogasawara at the End of the Edo Period), Chuo Koronsha, 1997 (Chuko Shinsho), pp. 41-42.

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