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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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ans, Simoda has been separated from the jurisdictionof the principality of Idzu, and constituted an imperial city, the authoritiesof which are appointed directly by the government at Yedo. There isa governor or general superintendent of the municipal and commercialafiairs of the place, with a fiscal assistant or treasurer, whose particularfunction has regard to the revenues. Subordinate to these two officials,there are the same number of prefects or hugio, who again have under themvarious collectors and interpreters, whose business is the practical adminis-tration of affairs in the various departments of government and trade.The limit of the jurisdiction of the imperial officers is marked by six guardstations, neither of which is over a mile and a half from the town, placedon all the principal roads leading to Simoda. Beyond these, the inhabitantsof the country are amenable as before to their own local government, whilewithin them all persons are under the newly appointed authorities.
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47 a CHAPTEE XXII. Survey and description of the harbor of Simoda.—Discipline in the squadron.—Intercourse with the au-thorities of Simoda.—Kura-kawa-kahei, the Prefect.—His disposition to produce trouble.—Treatmentof the American officers.—Remonstrances of the Commodore.—Equivocation of the Prefect.—He isfrightened into propriety.—Efforts of two Japanese gentlemen clandestinely to leave their country inthe squadron.—Commodores conduct.—Bnddh st temples at Simoda.—Prefect again shows his pettyhostility.—His prevarications and falsehoods.—Funeral of an American on shore.—Insult offered toAmerican officers on .«hore.—Prefects further falsehoods.—Compelled to apologize, and informed thathis insoltnce would not be borne in future.—Friendly intercourse with the people.—Departure for Ha-kodadi.—Volcano of Oho-sima—The Kuro-siwo, or Japanese gulf stream.—Straits of Sangar.—Fogs.—Harbor of Hakodadi.—Directions for entering. N the Commodores a

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