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ever, was admirable, and the shops were soon emptied of it by their visitors. Deer skins, the 

 roach fish, and medicinal sea-weed were to be seen in large quantities. The food of the people 

 was of a better quality than at Simoda. 



After some days, a request arrived from Yedo that the expedition would return to Simoda, 

 that the question how far the country around Hakodadi should be considered open territory 

 mieht be determined in conference with the Commissioner Lin. Besides the usual verses of com- 

 pliments, an officer, called Yuen-tang, presented me, on our leaving the port, with two pictures 

 in rolls, not to be distinguished from those common in China. Another gave me a good many 

 volumes, I always acknowledging the gifts by the return of strings of fragrant beads. On the 

 4th of June, tbe commodore commenced his return to Simoda, the passage back occupying the 

 same time as the passage from it had done. The day after his arrival, he and his officers, all 

 in full dress, were entertained by Lin in the Leaon-seen temple, and in the afternoon the 

 American soldiers marched in order through the streets, there being a general turn out of the 

 population to look at them. Among the attendants of one of the commissioners was a young 

 gentleman named Kwei-ching-min, of much intelligence and liveliness. All the visitors were 

 very fond of him, and he had a great knack of drawing their likenesses. One of the imperial 

 physicians, Wan-tsuen, asked me on this occasion about the manner in which officers were 

 advanced to government employment in China. I endeavored to explain the subject to him, 

 and we afterwards exchanged stanzas. 



On the 17th of June, Lin and the other commissioners completed the negotiations connected 

 with the treaty, which was arranged in thirteen articles. It was agreed, also, that American 

 citizens should be free to ramble to the distance of five le all round Hakodadi. These are 

 Japanese le, and the five may be equal to ten English miles. On the same day the commodore 

 gave a grand entertainment on board the steamer, and exhibited a mimic specimen of a naval 

 fight, for the entertainment of his Japanese guests, but the festivities were sadly interrupted 

 by heavy rains. 



Having heard that in Simoda there was one Yun-ts'ung-wo, famous for his skill in writing 

 with his mouth, I went to him and got him to draw and inscribe for me about a dozen pictures. 



On the 25th of June, all the business being concluded, the squadron left Japan, many officers 

 escorting it in their own boats. Six days brought us to Lew-Chew, where the native authorities 

 received us courteously, and supplied the ships with provisions. When we sailed from Lew- 

 Chew in February, the commodore had left some sailors who were sick, and circumstances came 

 to light concerning the death of one of them, which required investigation. He and two 

 others had been drinking, and he in particular had provoked the people till they began to stone 

 him. They probably killed him and threw him into the sea ; but the authorities concealed 

 the fact of his having been stoned, and merely said that he had disappeared, leaving his com- 

 panions drunk, and they knew nothing of him till he was reported as found drowned at a certain 

 spot. The fact of his having been stoned coming out, one of the men concerned in the case was 

 brought before the Commodore, who, after inquiry, delivered him to the Lew-Chewan authorities, 

 to be dealt with according to justice. He was banished, I understood, to Kew-chung hill, and 

 the local magistrate was deprived of his pay, but retained in office. 



On the 11th July, the prime minister and the treasurer, at an interview with the commodore 

 at Napha, concluded articles of a treaty between the United States and Lew-Chew. This being 

 settled, the steamers separated, and we sailed for different ports of China.* 



* Although there are some errors in the descriptions of the Chinese writer, his paper has been faithfully copied.— M. C. P. 



