Christopher and Cosmas
Christopher and Cosmas were two Japanese men, only known by their Christian names, who are recorded to have travelled across the Pacific on a Spanish galleon in 1587, and were later forced to accompany the English navigator Thomas Cavendish to England, Brazil and the Southern Atlantic, where they disappeared with the sinking of his ship in 1592. == Western accounts == === Pacific crossing on a Spanish galleon === They are first mentioned by the navigator Francis Pretty, in Richard Hakluyt's account of the travels of Cavendish.