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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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SUB-PEEFECT OF HAKODADI. PROSPECTS OF HAKODADI. 523 sons, but the pheasant is rarely seen; of common birds there are foundsome curlew, plover and snipe. The fox, the wild boar, the deer, and thebear, are occasionally hunted. The fox is looked upon by the Japanese aspossessed of an evil spirit, and is represented in their allegories as a willingagent of the devil, and with this belief the animal is pursued to the death.The people do not attempt to deprecate the wrath and cunning of his satanicmajesty and his brood, as in some countries, but manfully hold them indefiance, and boldly give them battle. A male and female fox, with anotheranimal allied to them in species, were shot, and their skins preserved. Hakodadi, in the future, will probably be frequented by our whalers, asit is conveniently situated to their usual resorts. Von Siebold states thatsixty-eight square-rigged vessels were counted by the Japanese as passingHakodadi and Matsmai in one year, and probably nearly all these wer

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