532 



INDEX. 



Page. 



Port Louis, Mauritius, visit to 105 



Portman, Mr., Dutch interpreter, conversation of, 



with a Japanese - 234 



Portugue.se, intercourse of the, with Japan 4 



missionaries, their information respect- 

 ing Japan. - -- ^ 



discovery 22 



intercourse with Japan -. 23 



how interrupted 25 



insult the Japanese -- - 26 



tlieir naval system 27 



attribute their expulsion to Dutch in- 

 trigues .- -- 27 



possession of Mascarenhas, afterwards 



Mauritius .- 107 



possession of St. Helena 91 



possession of Ceylon - 116 



possession of Macao 140 



in Macao 297 



fortifications, Macao 298 



Japanese restrictions upon the 384 



tostal service of the Japanese 54 



Prayer, Japanese 476 



wheel, Hakodadi 444 



Praying machine, Japanese 476 



' ' Praying man," Japanese respect for a 446 



Preble, United States man-of-war, her visit to Japan 48 



Preble, Lieutenant, survey of harbor of Kelung — 501 



Precipices, Peel island 207 



Presents to the Japanese, quality of, proposed by 



Commodore Perry 86 



of Japanese, refused - - 155 



from the United States to the Emperor of 



Japan 257 



of the American government to the Em- 

 peror of Japan 270 



policy of the expedition respecting 273 



law respecting Japan 355 



to the Japanese, list of 356 



delivery of - - 357 



of the Japanese to the United States 369 



President of the United States, letter of the, to 



the Emperor of Japan 238,245 



Prices of labor in Canton 292 



Priests, support of, Simoda 411 



Priesthood, Lew Chew 219 



Primer, Japanese - -- 462 



Prince, young, of Lew Chew 190 



Princeton, the, unable to join the squadron 78 



Prisons in Japan 18 



Proas of Malacca, beauty of models of 126 



Queen dowager. Lew Chew 188,190,193 



Quicksilver in Japan -. 60 



Raffles, Sir Stamford, attempts, as governor of 

 Java, to oust the Dutch 



from Japan - 42 



his services to Singapore 127, 128 



Kailroads of the United States known to Japanese 



officials at Uraga 248 



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Rajah of Jahore and Singapore 129 



Rank indicated by dress in Lew Chew 225 



Rats, how served up in China 290 



abundance of. Lew Chew 314 



Raven with a broad beak, Lew Chew 167 



Razor, Japanese 456 



Receipt, the Japanese, for the letters transmitted 



to the Emperor 260 



Red card, presentation of a 310 



Redfield, W. C, observations on the Gulf Stream. 428 



Eedfield rocks, near Simoda. 417 



survey of - 489 



Reed and Dougherty, Messrs., commimication to 



the governor of Hakodadi 391 



Reed, Mr. , his letters respecting the treatment of 



Americans at Simoda 390 



Regent, Lew Chew, his reception of Commodore 



Perry 189 



entertainment by the, to Com. Peiry 191 



dignity of proof against the effects of good 



liquors 218 



new, of Lew Chew 214 



Religion, Simoda 406 



Resanoff, a Russian officer, his visit to Japan 45 



orders a hostile attack 46 



Residence, American, in Japan 377 



Reviews and military exercises of the expedition 



at Lew Chew... 194 



Rhubarb, plant resembling 469 



Rice, Japanese custom respecting 368 



bearded. Lew Chew 163 



cultivation of. Lew Chew 311 



cultivation, Simoda 406 



fields, LewChew 168 



hulling machine, China 507 



mills, Hongo 412 



Rioboo-Sintoo, a Sintoo sect 21 



Rio-shen-zhi, a Buddhist temple, Simoda 409 



Rocks, remarkable masses of. Lew Chew. 16S 



at entrance of the bay of Yedo 325 



Rock island, near the bay of Yedo 231 



Simoda harbor 415, 416 



near Simoda 489 



Rodgers, Commander, letter to Messrs. Reed and 



Dougherty 391 



Roman Catholic missionaries at Lew Chew 225 



Japanese dislike of. . 446 



Roofs of dwellings, Simoda 404 



Roquemausel, Commodore, of the French navy, 



pleasant intercourse with 133 



RoBarlo, Identity of, with Disappointment island., 213 



Rouge, applied by Japfinese women to their lips .. 395 

 Russia apparently desirous of sharing the honors of 



the Japanese expedition 62 



Russian intercourse with Japan 44 



possessions adjacent to Japan 44 



advantages to her from the possession of 



Japan 45 



visit to Japan m 1853 62 



