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to US. Witli regard to going through the streets, and seeing shops and houses shut, with 

 neither women nor children in the ways, let it be here observed, that at Yoku-hama this very 

 matter was plainly spoken of by Moryama, the interpreter, at that place. The customs of our 

 country are unlike yours, and the people have been unused to see people from foreign lands ; 

 and though the authorities did what they could to pacify them, and teach them better, they still 

 were disinclined to believe, and many absconded or hil themselves. If the Commodore will 

 recall to mind the day when he took a ramble to Yoku-hama, in which some of us accompanied 

 him, he will recollect that in the villages and houses we hardly saw a woman during the whole 

 walk. If he saw more of them at Simoda, as he went about, it was because there the people 

 were gradually accustomed to the Americans, and their fears had been allayed, so that they felt 

 no dread. 



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Jap:ines2 AVomen. 



" On these remote frontiers, many miles from Yedo, tlie usages of the people are so fixed that 

 they are not easily influenced and altered ; but, pray, how can the inhabitants here think of 



