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EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. 



the Powliatan (which had then just arrived from the West Indies) ^was substituted for the 

 Princeton. 



The Commodore, tired of delays, was not disposed to wait any longer for a consort, and, 

 accordingly, on the 24th of November, 1852, the Mississippi alone took her departure from 

 Norfolk, on the mission to Japan, with the intention of touching on the outward passage, 

 for supplies of coal and refreshments, at Madeira, the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and 

 Singapore. 



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