In 1984 archaeologist Tom Layton found Chinese ceramics in a Pomo Indian village he was excavating ten miles inland from the California coast. The pottery came from a clipper ship, the Frolic, that sank off Mendocino in 1849. In this History Channel prog ram John Chatterton, Michael Norwood, Duncan Rasmussen and Shelli Smith investigate how this opium runner from the Far East ran up against the rocks of the northern California coast on July 24, 1849. Filmmaker Mark Cannon; narrator John Chatterton. A& ;E Television Networks. Closed captioned.