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INDEX. 



Page. 



Signs of shops, Simoda 404 



Sikai, or "ten counsels" of Buddhism 21 



Silks, Japanese 268,458 



woven by criminals 51 



Sillibaboos, picked up at sea by the Southamp- 

 ton 501 



surgical examination of the 503 



left to be sent home from Manilla 504 



Silver, abundant in Japan 60 



Simoda, opened to trade by the United States 69 



discussion relative to opening the port 



of - 364 



approval of as an American port 377 



Japanese proclamation to the Americans 



at 390 



Japan 401 



beauty of the environs of 402 



its antiquity 402 



docks, streets, sewers of 403 



houses, shops 404 



officials, baths, diet, vegetables 405 



rice, religion, temples, monasteries, shrines 406 



sculpture, pictures, demons, grave-yards. 407 



festivals, " Mariners' Temple " . 410 



environs of 411 



its topographical characteristics 413 



government of 414 



harbor of 415 



Commodore Perry's return to 477 



regulations respecting American vessels 



at 487 



earthquake at 510 



harbor unaffected by the 512 



Simpson, Alex. , letter respecting the Bonin islands 305 



Sinagawa, a suburb of Tedo 267, 343 



Singapore, visit to -- 125 



Sintoo, the priests of 13 



religion of Japan -. 19 



its deities - 19 



idols 19 



temples - 19 



priests, question of their marriage 20 



pilgrimages 20 



duties 20 



festival services 20 



sects - - 21 



temple, Simoda - 406,409 



shrines, Simoda .- 410 



Siutoo, a Japanese belief ; its rules 22 



Sira-hama, bay of, near Simoda 416 



Sirija Saki, Nippon 430 



Sirocco, the, compared with the Harmattan 89 



Sitkokf, an island of Japan 7 



Slave, value of a Lew Cliewan 226 



Slavery, system of, in Lew Chew 226 



Sledges, carriages drawn on, at Funchal 84 



Smith, Sir Thomas, licensed, as governor of the 



East India Company, to trade with the Japanese 34 



Society in China 296 



Socks, Japanese - - 347 



Sorghum, or millet. Lew Chew 173 



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Sotowra, near Simoda . ... 4H 



Soundings, bay of Uraga 232 



Southampton rock, near Simoda. 41" 



Southeast bay. Peel island. 208 



Southern Head, Bonin islands, natural tunnel at.. 20 



Sovereignty of the Bonin islands 213 



Sowas, a metal made by the Japanese 50 



Spaniards, intercourse of the, with Japan 4 



Spaniel, an English species of, possibly introduced 



from Japan 369 



Spars, purchase of, at Simoda 484 



Spectacles, Japanese 462 



Speiden, W., purser, report on Japanese currencies. 478 

 Sphynx, her British Majesty's ship, visit to Napha, 



Lew Chew 215 



Spies 193, 194, 217, 423 



atLewClicw..l57, 160, 172,176,192,219,220,226,280 



in the bay of Uraga 236 



vigilance of, relaxed at Lew Chew 284 



bad effects of the system of 285 



Japanese 328,347,359 



follow American oflficers in Japan 418 



Spooner, Mr. , hospitality of 139 



Springs, Peel island, brackish 209 



Squadron, disposition of, for the return voyage 491 



St. Geran, ship%vreek of the French vessel, the 



foundation of the story of Paul and Virginia 112 



St. Helena, visit of the expedition to 91 



military strength of 94 



greediness for money of the people 



of 94 



St. Pierre Bernardin 111 



St. Thomas, said to have preached in Ceylon 120 



Standards, Japanese 252 



Stapleton island, Bonin islands, goats on 203 



Steam-engine, astonishment of the Japanese at 155 



not unknown to the Japanese 248 



Steel, Hakodadi 456 



Stirling, Admiral, makes a treaty with Japan 63 



copy of his Japanese treaty 388 



Stone worked by Japanese 400 



Storms off the Cape of Good Hope. 104 



Streets of Simoda guarded by gates , 403 



Styx, her British Majesty's steamer 105 



Subscription list in a Siutoo temple 410 



Sugar-cane, Lew Chew. 173 



Sugar crop at Mauritius 109 



Sugar-loaf island, Lew Chew. - 178 



Sugar mills. Lew Chew 313 



Sugar, use of. Lew Chew 313 



Sulphur in Japan 60 



spring. Peel island 209 



Sunday, observance of, by the expedition 240 



Supplies for whale ships at the Bonin islands 203 



for American ships in Japan 356 



cost of, Simoda 484 



Supply rock, near Simoda 417 



the, nearly wrecked 144 



Suraga-no-kami, Japanese commissioner. 477 



Surro-kubo, or Cape Blunt 430, 431 



Survey of the bay of Uraga 238,241,267,268,270 



