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have made your bargains; they will certainly 
bring the articles at the time appointed, and will 
not attempt to demand more than the sum which 
they have agreed to. 
As these gardens were very numerous, the whole 
day was spent in examining them ; and my attend- 
ants, long before I had finished, had been giving 
me sundry broad hints that it was time to set out 
on our return to Yedo. When I had finished my 
investigations we mounted our horses and rode 
homewards, arriving at the American Legation 
before nightfall. Here I found a letter waiting 
for me, of which the following is a “ true copy : ” — 
“ I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your 
letter of to-day, and regret that you have placed 
me under the necessity of again writing to you. 
I care not to be informed now for what object you 
have come to Japan, or that Her Majesty’s Minis- 
ter would have granted you permission to visit 
Yedo had he been here — I only know that you 
are a private individual in a private capacity in 
this country, and that you have not asked for nor 
received the requisite sanction from the British 
authority here to come up to Yedo. 
“ It is of no consequence to me now what you 
were given to understand at Kanagawa ; but you 
must have been well aware that the American 
Minister has not the power to grant you, or any 
other British subject, permission to visit Yedo. It 
was your duty to have communicated with me on 
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