Region: Korean Peninsula · Coordinates: 33.510, 126.522 · 10 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| AD 1653 | Hamel's Journal | On the night of 15 August, in a storm, land is sighted and the anchor cables are cut, but the ship cannot hold and strikes a reef, breaking to pieces at once (the wreck date in the title is 16 August). The crew are washed ashore. |
| AD 1653 | Hamel's Journal | Searching the shore on the morning of 16 August, only 36 survivors are gathered; 28 of 64 died. Captain Reynier Egbertsz is also found dead and buried. |
| AD 1653 | Hamel's Journal | On 18 August 1,000 to 2,000 cavalry and infantry arrive and camp, and the officers (the clerk Hamel, the chief mate, the boatswain, a boy) are dragged out with iron chains (bells) around their necks and made to prostrate. They gesture that they want to go to Nagasaki, Japan, but are not understood. |
| AD 1653 | Hamel's Journal | On 22 August they reach "Moggan", seat of the island governor (mokso), where the clerk and others prostrate before the governor in front of thousands of armed soldiers and are interrogated. They answer only that they were going to Japan. They are then confined in a house where the king's uncle died in exile. |
| AD 1653 | Hamel's Journal | On 29 October, at a gathering called by the governor, a red-bearded man in Korean dress addresses them in Dutch: Jan Janse Weltevree (from De Rijp), who came on the Hollandia in 1626 and was cast ashore in 1627 on the Ouwerkerck bound for Japan. He says the king has repeatedly refused to let them go to Japan. |
| AD 1653 | Hamel's Journal | In early December the governor's three-year term ends and a new governor arrives. Before leaving, the old governor has winter clothes and shoes made for them. The new one cuts off side dishes and gives only rice and salt. |
| AD 1654 | Hamel's Journal | In late April six men try to steal a boat and flee, but while climbing over the wall the guard notices the barking of dogs and the attempt fails. |
| AD 1654 | Hamel's Journal | In early May the helmsman and five others flee in an empty boat on the shore, but the mast falls into the sea twice (once breaking), and they are driven back ashore. Caught, each is beaten 25 times with a rod wearing a plank around the neck, and lies in bed for about a month. |
| AD 1654 | Hamel's Journal | In late May the king's reply arrives, ordering them to come up to Seoul (they are released from prison). |
| AD 1654 | Hamel's Journal | Six or seven days later they are put aboard four ships with both legs and one hand in stocks and set out. Adverse winds hold them for two days, they are freed and returned to the old prison, then set out again with a fair wind four or five days later. |