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Title: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the government of the United States
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
Subjects: United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Publisher: Washington : A. O. P. Nicholson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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to the people whatever, hut that everything we needed would hefurnished us. The Chinese suggested—probably on their own account—that we should j)ay thepeojile in ships biscuit, but we had scarcely enough for our own wants. It was at lengthdecided that we should take what we required and settle for its value with the Pe-ching on ourreturn. The people were tardy in bringing our firewood, and we were obliged to eat our 8Uj)por by thelight of our camp fire. I succeeded in getting a sketch of the bay, while daylight remained. It.is deep and spacious, and protected by reefs across the mouth, but, judging from the appearanceof the water, too shallow to be made available for naval purposes. A large village lies at itshead, and several fishing junks were at anchor before it. At night tlic plain sparkled witiilights, some of them moving to and fro—probably lanterns carried by persons passing from onevillage to another. The officers determined to remain with us at all hazards, and at their
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Kxpluit-r.-i.—1- 1^ \ hi iv. —.Nijjhl Camp. command the people brought up bamboo poles and matting, out of which they erected a tempo-rary structure beside our tent. They were perfectly good-humored iiitlicir dcmeaiKir, andsubiTiittcd with great patience to what they could not avoid. Before going to sleep we arrangedfour watclies of two hours each, from 9 p. m. until 5 a. m., and the subordinate native policemenkindled a fire and kept a counter-watch. We were all somewhat fatigued with our first march E X P L O n A T T O N OF LEW CHEW. 1G7 of ten miles, but the mosquitoes were so terril)ly annoying that few of us slept more than half anhour during the whole night. We rose at dawn, and found the natives already stirring. The morning gave promise of fairweather. The Pe-ching and his associates came up and saluted us gravely as soon as we arose.It required about two hours to cook and eat breakfast, strike the tent, and pack the baggage forcarrying. When we were all ready we found eig

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