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Annotation | LINSCHOTEN-VEREENIGING 18: HAMEL, HENDRIK, Verhaal van het vergaan van het jacht De Sperwer, en van het wedervaren der schipbreukelingen op het eiland Quelpaert en het vasteland van Korea (1653-1666) met eene beschrijving van dat rijk. Uitg.door B.Hoetink.
Hard Cover,Large 8vo. LIII+165 pp. With map & 11 ills. Bibliogr.,index. Or.blue cloth, t.e.g., untrimmed. (Spine ends sl. bumped; lib. stamps Hogere Zeevaartschool Amsterdam on h.title, occas. sl. foxing). Linschoten Vereeniging, 18.
First edition of this title in Dutch was published in 1668 in Netherlands. Hamel's account gave the West its first direct knowledge of Korea. In 1593, a Spanish Jeuit ,Father de Cespedes ,had accompanied the Japanese troops of Toyotomi Hideyoshi during their invasion of Korea. But in their annual letters to their superior in Europe ,the Jesuits of Japan just related the campaign without carrying to include information on the country and its inhabitants. Fr.de Guzman used these letters in his Historia(1601) adding generally confusing infomation on Korea of Chinese origin. The reason for this ignorance was the strict rules prohibiting foreigners to enter Korea and the European navigators,who were trading with Japan,avoided sailing near the penininsula. In 1627,a VOC ship ,the Ouderkerk,having gone near the coast,sent a canoe to fetch some fresh water and three sailors who were aboard were captured by the inhabitants.One of them,Jan Janse Weltervree,who had taken the name Pak Yon,was still alive when Hamel and his companions were stranded on Cheju (Quelpaert) Island in 1653. The VOC vessel Sperwer left Batavia on June 18th 1653 with sixty-four men on board .Hendrik hamel waa the ship's "Secretary" .In August the vessel was caught in a severe storm and twenty-eight of the crew perished. The survvors were interened and subsequently transferred to Seoul. It was at Quelpaert,while waiting for a long time for orders from the court concerning the fate,that Hamel and his companions met Jan Weltevree who acted as translator for them. It was from him they learnt that onece in Korea one could not escape.It was on in 1666,after thirteen years ,when the supervision had relaxed ,that Hamel and seven of his companions could get hold of boat and were carried towards the Japanese island of Kyusu by the winter monsoon.
In nagasaki,the rescued sailors were questioned at length by the Japanese and by the Director of the Deshima factory,Their answers,taken down in the company register dated Septrember 14th,1666,match the account which Hamel started writing at once.
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| Author | Hamel Hendrik |
| Publisher | S-Gravenhage Martinus Nijhoff,Netherlands |
| Pub.Year(s) | 1920 |
| Language | Others |
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