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INDEX, 



Page. 



Typhoon near Formosa 500 



Typhoons felt at Lew Chew 311 



Tzudsuki, Japanese commissioner 477 



Udono, Japanese commissioner 347 



Ukona rocks, near Simoda 417 



Uniform, Japanese - 237, 243 



United States commercial agent at Point de Galle, 



Ceylon, imprisoned for debt 115 



correspondence of the, with Holland, 



relative to Japan 66 



intercourse with Japan, expedition 



ofl846 47 



priority of their treaty with Japan. 74 



seamen imprisoned in Japan - 48 



forced to trample on the cross 48 



released -- 48 



the ' ' Middle Kingdom' ' 75 



Un-na, Lew Chew 180 



Uraga, Japan - 231 



hay of, Japan - 232 



city of 232 



vice governor of, received on board the 



squadron 234 



picturesque shores of the bay of. 237, 265, 267 



survey of the bayof.. 268,270 



proposed as a place of negotiation 328 



discussion respecting a meeting at 336 



Vandalia, voyage of the, to Lew Chew - 286 



Vandalia bluff, Simoda harbor _ 416 



Van Twist, Duymaer, letter to Com. Perry an- 

 nouncing the death of the Emperor of Japan — 322 



Vegetables, Simoda. 405 



Vegetation, peculiar, of the Bonin islands 209 



luxuriant, of the bay of Yedo 394 



Vessels, sea, of the Japanese 53 



Victoria, Hong Kong 134 



Victoria, the English bishop of, and his account 



of his official visit to Lew Chew in 1850 - 223 



Victoria, the English bishop of, remark on the 



writings of Confucius - 224 



Victoria, the English bishop of, account of Dr. 



Bettelheim 225 



Village, Lew Chew, description of. - 218 



Villages, Lew Chew 173 



Virgin and child, image of, found in a heathen 



temple in Singapore — 128 



Vocabulary of Lew Chew and Japanese words 315 



Volcanic formation of Peel island 209 



Volcano bay, survey of .- 468 



Volcanoes ' 



in Endermo harbor 469 



Vries island, or Oo-sima, bay of Yedo 231 



Japan .- 271 



Vulcan island, Japan -. - 271 



Wages of laborers. Lew Chew -- 220 



Walls of coral in Lew Chew - 156 



AVampon river - 144 



Wardenaar, his connexion with the expedition of 



Raffles 42 



Washington, George, remark of Lew Chew official 



on 16 



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Washington, " very great mandarin" 192 



known to the Japanese 333 



styled the great mandarin at Lew 



Chew 496 



monument, Japanese stone for 485 



stone contributed to, from 



Lew Chew 497 



Washington's hirth-day, celebration of, by the 



American squadron in Japan 333, 334 



Watch, a curiosity in Lew Chew.- 175, 176 



Water hufiiilo of Singapore 131 



Wax plant, Lew Chew 168 



Webster island, Japan 353,399 



We-dae-o-gang, or smaller officials of Lew Chew.. 226 



Weirs for fish. Lew Chew _ 168 



Whale ships, supplies for, Bonin islands 203 



fishery off Japan opened by the treaty 212 



fishers, protection to shipwrecked, demand- 

 ed of the Japanese 257 



Whaling depot, Hakodadi 45 1 



Whampoa, a Chinese merchant at Singapore, his 



hospitality 128 



anchorage at 135 



pagoda 135 



Wharf, temporary Japanese, of bags of sand and 



straw 254 



Williams, Wells, interpreter 154, 155 



Wind, direction of. _ 89 



Winds, encountei-ed off the Cape and in the Indian 



ocean 103 



Winter, severity of, Japan 342 



Women, seclusion of, Lew Chew 193 



industry of. Lew Chew 219 



position of. Lew Chew ; dress 316 



foreign, not wanted in Japan. 385, 386 



American, at Simoda 390 



driven away on approach of Commodore ' 



Perry 394 



Japanese, visited by Commodore Perry.. 395 



Japanese, work in the fields 396 



social position of, in Japan 397 



Wood, dense. Lew Chew 177 



Wood-cuts, Japanese 459 



Woosung, village of 144 



Wives, importance of the number of, in China — 296 



Woven fabrics of the Japanese 51 



Wrecks of American vessels, Japan, communica- 

 tion respecting 471 



Wrestlers, Japanese 369, 370 



Japanese, drawings of 461 



Wrestling match, Japanese 371 



Writing, hand. Lew Chew 224 



Xavier, his mission in Japan 24 



establishes Christianity in Ceylon 120 



Yang-tse-keang river 144 



Yedo - 6,7 



town observed on the bay of - 241 



plan of, shown to Japanese officials 251 



port of, in sight 267 



advantages of the survey of the bay of 273 



shores of the bay of, in winter 326 



