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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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hmen, knowing our distresses, wentaway in the year 1848 to their own country, and have not hitherto returned ; but Bettel-heim has loitered away years here and not gone, and now, further, has brought Moretonwith his family to take his place, and live here, greatly to the discomfort of the people,and distress and inconvenience of the country. We have learned that your excellency has authority over all the East Indian, Chinaand Japan seas, and not a ship of any western country can go from one of these seas tothe other but you know and regulate its movements. Wherefore we lay before you our gadcondition in all its particulars, humbly beseeching your kind regard upon it, and request-ing that, when your fine ships return, you will take both Bettelheim and Moreton awaywith you. This wiU solace and raise us up from our low condition, and oblige us in away not easy to be expressed. We wish your life may be prolonged to a thousand autumns,in the enjoyment of the highest felicity.July 10, 1854.
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574 EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. matter. Again, the importance of an abundant supply of coal for the use ofsteamers, not only of our own, but of other nations that may reasonably beexpected ere long to throng these seas, furnished another motive for the visitto Formosa, as there was reason to think the mineral existed in abundance onthat island. There was also a particular reason for touching at the Philip-pines, which we will detail presently. On the 29th of June, the Macedonian and Supply left Simoda. On thesecond day out the Supply disappeared, and was not seen again until she en-tered the harbor of Kelung in Formosa, on the 21st of July, ten days afterthe arrival at that place of the Macedonian, which had made the run fromSimoda in about twelve days, encountering an opposing current, head winds,and tempestuous weather through nearly the entire voyage. The island wasmade at its northern end, and the entrance to Kelung was not very plain.Certain landmarks, however, were noted by the officer

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