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Identifier: narrativeofexped05perr (find matches)
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.)
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y huts for shelter and the dryingof damaged goods. Hue, the Chinese traveller, gives a different accouut; hestates that the Portuguese were allowed to settle by the Emperor, in returnfor the signal service of capturing a famous pirate who had long ravaged thecoasts. From an humble beginning, the settlement gradually arose to an im-posing position as a commercial place, for which it was greatly indebted tothe monopoly it enjoyed of eastern commerce. It has, however, declined,and is now a place of very inconsiderable importance and trade. The town is situated upon a peninsula at the southward of the island of Ma-cao. It is sufficiently picturesque in appearance, built as it is upon the accliv-ities of the rising ground about the harbor, with its gay-looking white houses,which overhang the terraces that bound the shore aud look out upon thesea. The houses of the old merchants, though they now bear some appearanceof neglect, yet attest, by the spaciousness of the apartments, and the luxu-
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