404 MATTHEW C. PERRY. 



perial Government, the whole American squadron 

 weighed anchor to return home on the 28th of June, 

 1854. He directed his course to the Lew-Chew 

 Islands, with the authorities of which he proposed 

 to conclude the negotiations which had already 

 been begun and considerably advanced. His ships 

 entered the port of JSTapha on the 1st of July. 

 After protracted deliberations, a treaty was agreed 

 upon in all its details. It guaranteed the right to 

 Americans to visit the islands, and to purchase 

 whatever they might desire ; it provided that Ame- 

 rican ships visiting the harbor should be furnished 

 with fuel and provisions ; that if ships were wrecked 

 on the coast, the Lew-Chewans should afford their 

 crews all the assistance in their power, and pre- 

 serve their property which might be saved from all 

 attempts at plunder ; that if American seamen dis- 

 obeyed the laws of the kingdom, or committed any 

 outrage, they should be arrested by the local authori- 

 ties and taken to the American commander for 

 punishment; it stipulated that a burial-ground 

 should be appropriated to the Americans for their 

 use, and their graves be respected ; and that the 

 Government of Napha should appoint skillful pilots, 

 who should be on the look-out for ships which 

 might approach the island, and should go out in 



