A STRANDED SHIP IN THE SIERRA NEVADA.

Kumara Times, Issue 838, 7 June 1879, Page 4

A STRANDED SHIP IN THE SIERRA NEVADA.

Another stranded ship has baen found, and the VisUia De:ta is responsible for the story:— A report comes from the Sierra Nevada Mountains of the discovery of the timbers of a stranded v< ssel, resembling those of a Chinese junk, high up in the mountains between Mineral King and the head waters of King's River. The sound portion of. the timber resembles camphor wood, and it is said Btill retains a faint smell. The fastenings are of copper; the rigging, &e, is, of course, all gone. A Lumber of bones, supposed to be human, were also found in the vicinity, and upon the adjacent slopes there is abundant evidence of the previous occupation of the water in the shape of shells, as well as the occasional finding of petrified fish. That this valley has at one time been an inland sea is ad • mitted by geologists, but that these waters were navigated by Celestial seamen one or two thousand years ago has never been claimed even by the Chinese themselves. But the same people do claim to have been the original discoverers of this country, and this find seems to give color to the claim It has also been claimed by them that vessels of theirs have been wrecked on this coast,- and that portions of the crews have returned to China. But that the wreck itself should be located, and that this location should prove in Tuare County, is surely an interesting fact, inviting the inspection of. the curious and the solution of the cientific. '