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Title: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
Subjects: United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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that it wasfound necessary for each man, as he descended, to place himself upon hisback and thus slide down the declivity, taking care to check his speed byoccasionally clenching the earth or some projecting bush. Finally, theravine below was reacted, but there was considerable disappointment onfinding that the worst was not yet over; for, instead of coming upon awater-course, as was expected, which might lead gently to the sea side, itwas discovered that there was a succession of rocky steps, varying from tento fifty feet, down which it was necessary to clamber. At last the beachwas reached; and as those in advance looked up to their remaining compan-ions, some standing upon the edge of the cliffs, and others letting themselvesdown their precipitous sides, the undertaking just accomplished seemed amarvellous feat of labor, difficulty, and danger. The party now found themselves in what the guide called the SouthEast Bay, which was said to be frequently visited by the whalers; some of
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