[3] Several crew members died of scurvy; only three survived by the time they arrived at Cape Alava, the westernmost point of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, in 1834.

[3] McLoughlin, envisioning an opportunity to use the castaways to open trade with Japan, sent the trio to London on the Eagle to try to convince the Crown of his plan.

[4] The British Government ultimately declined interest in the enterprise, and the castaways were instead dispatched to Macau on board the General Palmer, so that they could be returned to their home country.

[4] Once in Macau, Otokichi, Kyukichi, and Iwakichi were welcomed by Karl Gutzlaff, a German missionary and Chinese translator for the British government.

[citation needed] The trio was joined in Macau by four more castaways from Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyūshū, who had been shipwrecked on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.

[4] In July 1837, the seven castaways left with Charles W. King on board the Morrison to Uraga at the entrance of Edo Bay.

[citation needed] His second wife, Louisa Belder, was half-German and half-Malay, living in Singapore, with whom he had a son and three daughters.

[3] Otokichi is known to have returned to Japan twice, first as a translator on board HMS Mariner, which entered Uraga Port in 1849 to conduct a topographical survey.

[5] Despite starring country singer Johnny Cash as John McLoughlin, and having a reported budget of US$4,000,000, the film was not a commercial success.