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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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CAMOENS CAVE, MAOAO.
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OAMOENS CAVE, MACAO—IJEAK VIEW RIVER WAMPON—SHANGHAI. 167 must be an unfit resort for any but the smaller vessels of a squadron, andconsequently, an unfit place for a naval depot. The Susquehanna, the Ply-mouth, and the Supply, all grounded on going in, and the last remainedthumping on the North Sand twenty-two hours, and was only saved fromtotal loss by a providential change of wind. The Mississippi was carried, inthe confusion of her pilot, out of the channel, but by good fortune did notstop, though she ran into nineteen feet water, one foot less than her draft,on the South Sand, but the power of the engines proved her salvation. Thewealthy foreign merchants established at Shanghai, who are gathering aplentiful harvest from the increasing trade of the place, should contributesome of their thousands toward rendering the navigation less dangerous. Itis but justice to say that a willingness has been expressed by eome of thesegentlemen to subscribe liberally toward the accomplishmen

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