DISPOSITION OF THE SQUADRON. 



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CHAPTER XXV. 



PREPARATIONS FOR PINAL DEPARTURE FROM THE JAPANESE WATERS. MACEDONIAN AND SDPPLT ORDERED TO FORMOSA. 



INSTROCTIONS TO CAPTAIN ABBOT, OF THE MACEDONIAN, TO TOUCH AT THE PHILIPPINES ON Ills WAY FROM FORMOSA TO 



CHINA. MISSISSIPPI, POWHATAN, AND SOUTHAMPTON PROCEED TO LEW CHEW. STATE OF AFFAIRS IN LEW CHEW. 



SUPPOSED MURDER OF AN AMERICAN BY LEW CHEWANS. TRIAL OF LEW CHEWANS FOR MURDER BY THEIR OWN AUTHORI- 

 TIES ON THE commodore's DEMAND. DESCRIPTION OF A LEW CHEW COURT OF JUSTICE. ACCUSED MADE TO PLEAD BY 



PUNCHES IN THE RIBS. ACCUSED CONVICTED AND BROUGHT TO THE COMMODORE FOR PUNISHMENT. HE HANDS THEM OVER 



TO THEIR OWN AUTHORITIES. THEY ARE BANISHED. NEW YEAr's CUSTOMS. COAL REMOVED FROM THE DEPOT TO THE 



SHIPS. COMPACT OR TREATY MADE WITH LEW CHEW. PRESENT FROM THE LEW CHEWANS TO THE COMMODORE A STONE 



FOR THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. EFFORT OF A JAPANESE TO COME OFF IN THE SQUADRON TO THE UNITED STATES. 



PARTING ENTERTAINMENT TO LEW CHEW AUTHORITIES. DEPARTURE OF THE SQUADRON FOR CHINA. MACEDONIAN'S VISIT 



TO FORMOSA. UNAVAILING SEARCH FOR AMERICANS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRECKED ON THE ISLAND. EXPLORATIONS 



BY CHAPLAIN JONES FOR COAL. FOUND IN ABUNDANCE AND OF GOOD QUALITY. SURVEY OF THE HARBOR OF KELUNG. 



LYING AND CUNNING OF THE FORMOSANS. RUN TO MANILLA. VERY STORMY PASSAGE. MARINE VOLCANOES IN THE 



NEIGHBORHOOD OF FORMOSA. INQUIRIES AT MANILLA INTO THE MURDER OF CERTAIN AMERICANS. SATISFACTORY CONDUCT 



OF THE SPANISH AUTHORITIES IN THE MATTER. DELIVERY BY CAPTAIN ABBOT TO THE GOVERNOR OF SIX SILLIBABOOS 



THAT HAD BEEN PICKED UP AT SEA BY LIEUTENANT COMMANDING BOYLE, OF THE SOUTHAMPTON, FLOATING IN AN OPEN 



BOAT. REMARKABLE DISTANCE THAT THEY HAD DRIFTED. PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF THE SILLIBABOOS. VOYAGE OF 



MACEDONIAN TO HONG KONG CAPTAIN KELLy's HANDLING OF THE CHINESE PIRATES AND IMPERIAL TROOPS ; FORCES 



THEM TO MAKE REPARATION. CHASTISEMENT OF THE CHINESE BY THE JOINT ACTION OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 



PLYMOUTH AND OF THOSE OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTy's SHIPS ENCOUNTER AND GRECIAN. THE COMMODORE, BY LEAVE 



FROM THE NAVY DEPARTMENT, TURNS OVER THE COMMAND TO CAPTAI.N ABBOT, AND RETURNS HOME BY THE OVERLAND 



ROUTE. ON THE ARRIVAL OF THE MISSISSIPPI IN NEW YOCK, ON THE 23d OF APRIL, THE CO.MMODORE REPAIRS ON BOARD, 



AND FORMALLY HAULING DOWN HIS FLAG, TERMINATES THE EXPEDITION. 



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HE story we are telling will perhaps be better understood if, 



before proceeding further, we recapitulate as to the disposi- 



Uir^t' tion that had been made of the several ships of the squadron. 



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The Saratoga sloop-of-war was on her way home, as we have 

 stated, with the copy of the treaty in the custody of Captain 

 Adams, who had been disjiatched on the 4th of April, as a 

 special messenger by the Commodore, to deliver the important 

 document into the hands of the proper authorities. The 

 steamer Susquehanna had been sent on the 24tli of March, 

 just one week before signing the treaty, and at the first mo- 

 ment at which she could be spared, to place herself at the dis- 

 posal of the Hon. Mr. McLean, our minister to China. The 

 Vandalia sloop-of-war, instead of returning with the other 

 ships fi-om Hakodadi to Simoda, had been ordered to make her 

 way from the former port to China, by passing through the 

 Straits of Sangar, and down on the western side of Japan 

 to Shanghai. The store-ship Southampton having surveyed 

 bay, and Endermo bay within it, just on the northern or Yesso side of the eastern 

 of the Straits of Sangar, had rejoined the squadron, and was now ordered to China. 



