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AMERICANS IN JAPAN. 
while they theBiselves remained in Japan with their 
embryo ship-chandlery. 
Their party numbered nine in all : — Mr. and Mrs. Reed 
and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Doty, and Messrs. Edger- 
ton, Bridleman, and Peabody. They were at present 
living in a temple on shore, and invited us to make their 
quarters our lounging-.place. 
The manner in which they came into possession of this 
temple — in fact, the only reason why they were allowed to 
land at all — is worthy of note, more especially as a very 
wrong conclusion is jumped at on page 454 of the other- 
wise very truthful work resulting from the labours of 
the squadron under Commodore M. C. Perry. Before 
noticing this wrong conclusion, I will make a simple 
statement of the manner in which they awoke one fine 
morning and found themselves temporary residents of 
Japan. Commodore Perry’s treaty had nothing whatever 
to do with it. 
Shortly previous to their arrival, the Russian frigate 
Diana had been seriously injured by an earthquake while 
at anchor in the harbour of Si-mo-da, and had subse- 
quently foundered while being towed to the more pro- 
tected port of Iley-da for repairs; and her crew, being thus 
left upon the hands of the Japanese, — who feared an armed 
body of five hundred men, — were necessarily compelled 
to have quarters assigned them, and provisions furnished, 
until such time as a ship should arrive to take them 
away. 
A large temple at Kaga-zaki (a small village of some 
hundred and fifty houses near the mouth of the harbour) 
was therefore jilaced at their disposal, which, subjected to 
