Rover incident

Rover incident
Traditional Chinese羅妹號事件
Simplified Chinese罗妹号事件
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLuófāháo shìjiàn
Southern Min
Hokkien POJLô-mōe-hō Sū-kiāⁿ
Map of the area drawn by Charles W. Le Gendre[1] showing "Where the Rover's Crew landed" (bottom middle of map).

The Rover Incident (Chinese: 羅妹號事件; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lô-mōe-hō Sū-kiāⁿ or Chinese: 羅妹號慘案; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lô-mōe-hō Chhám-àn[1]) occurred on 12 March 1867 when the American merchant ship Rover, captained by Joseph Hunt[2] who was accompanied by his wife Mercy G. Beerman Hunt,[3] and en route from Shantou to Niuzhuang,[4] was wrecked off the coast of Taiwan, then ruled by the Qing dynasty.[5] The ship struck a coral reef called Qixingyan near Cape Eluanbi and drifted into the area of Kenting[6] in modern-day Hengchun, Pingtung County, Taiwan. Fourteen American sailors, including Hunt and his wife,[1] were killed by Taiwanese Aborigines[7][8] in revenge for earlier killings of Kaolut (Koalut/Ku-a-lut/etc) tribe members by foreigners. Subsequently, the U.S. military decided to send a military expedition against the tribe members responsible.[9]

  1. ^ a b c 臺灣歷史地圖 增訂版 [Taiwan Historical Maps, Expanded and Revised Edition]. Taipei: National Museum of Taiwan History. February 2018. p. 78. ISBN 978-986-05-5274-4. 在1867年(同治6年)3月間,美國商船羅妹號(Rover)因遭遇暴風,在鵝鸞鼻南方七星岩觸礁後沉沒,船長、船員等14人在龜仔甪社所在的海岸登陸,遭到殺害。{...}地圖繪製:李仙得{...}羅妹號慘案 THE ROVER'S CASE.
  2. ^ "李仙得略傳" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Botefuhr Family". www.knottedwillow.com. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  4. ^ "Papers Past — Timaru Herald — 10 July 1867 — WRECK OF THE BARQUE ROVER". Archived from the original on 2012-09-30. Retrieved 2015-05-15.
  5. ^ Davidson (1903), p. 115.
  6. ^ "Jeff's Taiwan: Taiwan's Southern Cape (恆春半島)". formosaguy.blogspot.com. 15 May 2008. Retrieved 2015-05-15.
  7. ^ Japan Weekly Mail. Jappan Meru Shinbunsha. 1874. pp. 263–.
  8. ^ "Taiwan/Formosa".
  9. ^ "Taiwan Panorama Magazine | Taiwan-- A History in Maps". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2015-05-15.