碩士 / 國立臺灣師範大學 / 臺灣史研究所 / 103 / On October 5th 1903, a lifeboat escaped from the Benjamin Sewall, which was struck by a strong typhoon in the southern seas of Taiwan and then it landed in Botel Tobago, also known as Lanyu now. According to the survivors, 7 out of 11 crew members were drowned due to a robber by the aborigines of Tao people. Both of the government of the United States and Japan paid close attention to the shipwreck and United States Department of State indicated that Governor-General of Taiwan should take charge of international duty of marine salvage and executed the punishment properly. Moreover, the location, suspects and victims were similar with the Rover event in 1867 and Japan government showed the strict discipline comparing to China government through the interaction with the officials of the United States. In the sailing journal of Benjamin Sewall, the vessel crossed Pacific and Atlantic oceans and reached to four continents, including Europe, America, Asia and Australia. After the end of American Civil War in 1865, the local industry plumped up and the number of trades increased between the east and the west Pacific Ocean as a result of the invention and maturation of Clipper technology. Unfortunately, it sunk in the south of Taiwan.
Tao people were seen as mildness and kindness and they scarcely committed crimes of killing people because they feared the curse of ghosts, which was a unique culture of themselves. Since the exact reasons for the conflicts in the shipwreck were not known during the annual Religion and Rituals of Tao, some pointed out that it should blamed on a custom of robbery and salvage, which was evolved in the scarce of resources on the island. After the punishment to Tao by Japan official, Governor-General of Taiwan did not alter the ruling policy on Tao and, comparing to other Taiwan Savage districts, the modernization in Botel Tobago proceeded slowly. Until Tao people were treated as human race exhibition and the marine resources was depleted nearby Botel Tobago, the modernization gradually went up. On the other hand, followed by the opening, it brought some bad effects, like fatal disease, which caused the number of population of Tao tribes decreased.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/103NTNU5764010 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Chen, Wei-Chin, 陳偉欽 |
| Contributors | Lin, Yu-Ju, 林玉茹 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 134 |
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