1895.] t^»l [Frazer. 



The humorous sketches aboard ship are excellent, and the carefully 

 elaborated drawings of the canoes of State, the weapons, buildings and 

 costumes of the inhabitants of Lew Chew and the coast of China are the 

 best things of their liind the writer has seen, and far more graphic and 

 instructive than the illustrations accompanying the before mentioned 

 official account. Of a sudden these delightful sketches cease with an 

 entry of June 9, 1854 (?), though the album is but half full. The reason 

 is to be found in the official volume before alluded to. Strict orders were 

 issued by Commodore Perry that no sketch or narrative should by 

 his officers be communicated to their own families, or to the public,* and 

 while an officer probably had the right to make and retain such data 

 among his private papers, yet the penalty which he would pay for any 

 accidental or unguarded communication of his sketches or notes, and the 

 barrenness of the pleasure of keeping them entirely to himself, in all 

 probability discouraged McCauley from continuing his project. The re- 

 porting of the expedition was to be "official," and by the chance em- 

 ployment of the then little known traveler Bayard Taylor as historian, 

 classic. This long expedition was crowned with success and made the 

 participants in it marked and envied men for many j'ears. Among those 

 mentioned in Commodore Perry's despatches as deserving of credit for 

 the intelligent performance of duty was the subject of this sketch. f 



"Chalks, the Ship'.s Cook," "Unmarried and Married," "Going and Returning on 

 Twenty-four Hours' Leave," " Municipal Police of Mauritius Reception House at BumtS 

 Borneo," " Manmaigue Rajah," "Chinese Fast Boat," "Hong Kons," "San Pan," 

 " Dream of Johnnie," " Japanese Salute," "Jack's Provocashins," " The Barrel Over- 

 coat," "After a Six Months' Leave," "Gun Practice," "Cousin Nelly," "Return Stock," 

 " A Japanese," " One of the Things not Thought of when Homeward Bound ;" Sketches 

 of Loo Choo sic) man, woman, knife. Joss, Japanese head, Japanese pipe, Mandarin 

 hat partly finished, and colored croquis of a home scene; "Mount Fusi," "Mount 

 Chesima in Eruption," "Plan of Jeddo Bay," "Japanese," "Japanese Utensils and 

 Arms," "Mandarin Br>at No. 4," "Japanese Nob and Snob." "Japanese Scull," 

 " Japanese House on Sail Boat ;" Coins, fire engine, hat, paper mackintosh and wooden 

 pattens, Prince's barges, Japanese soldier, straw mackintosh, Japanese wrestler, 

 Japanese landscape, Japanese woman on pattens, Japanese buildings, bow and arrow, 

 U. S. officers with Japanese lantern, map of Hakodada bay, etc. 



* "All journals and private notes kept by members of the expedition were to be con- 

 sidered as belonging to the Government until permission should be given from the Navy 

 Department to publish them " {Narrative, etc., p. 100). 



t "The Secretary of the Navy in his report speaks thus of the conduct of our officers 

 and men of the East India squadron with the pirates in the waters of the China seas : 



" ' In the several encounters the officers and men have conducted themselves gal- 

 lantly,' and honorable mention is made of Lieuts. Pegram, Preble, Rolando, E. Y. 

 McCauley and Sproston ; Asst. Engineers Stamm and Kellogg ; Acting Masters Mates 

 J. P. Williams and S. R. Craig, and private Benjamin Adamson, of the marine corps, who 

 was dangerously wounded. 



" Lieuts. Henry Rolando and J. G. Sproston are from Baltimore, and Lieut. McCauley is 

 from this city, though his father was for some time Consul General from the United 

 States to Egypt" (Philadelphia daily paper of (?) 1856). 



(This reference is to the attack of the Powhatan on the Chinese pirates in the China 

 seas in 1855.) 



