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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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wn are well supplied, and at moderate prices, with beef, mutton, poultry,game, fish, and vegetables of all varieties. Among the difierent kinds ofgame, the pheasant, woodcock, and snipe abound, and of the fish, the shad iscommon during its season, of good size and flavor; some, indeed, larger thanare seen in the United States, though in taste inferior to those caught in ourrivers. Fruit is scarce, and of inferior quality, as the Chinese pay but littleattention to its cultivation; some cherries, however, were tasted, which provedto be tolerably good, and it was said that the peaches were also good. Allthe varieties of Chinese manufactured articles can ordinarily be obtained atShanghai, and especially a silk of famous fabric, woven at Su-Chan, a neigh-boring city. But the intestine disturbances prevailing deprived the Com-modore of any but a hearsay knowledge of many of these articles, which, ...:i;« S\ IHBII. k ■•«. . ,; ,,,11111,. i!i,iJe •i I .ii!iHiiiii llilllll I, ■ ii::;
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THE TAOU-TAI—VISIT TO HIM. 169 however, are said to be obtained, in pacific times, more easily at Shanghaithan at Canton. The foreign commerce has greatly increased since the termination of thewar with Great Britain, and the general belief is entertained that Shanghai,with its superior advantages, will monopolize most of the foreign trade withChina. The population of the place was estimated at two hundred and eightythousand, and the Chinese who composed it seemed to be of a better classthan those at Canton and Hong Kong. Like all their countrymen, they areindefatigable in labor and untiring in trading activity, for which they have,undoubtedly, a natural instinct. The Commodore, while at Shanghai, made an interesting return visit to the Taou-tai or governor and commander of the city, who first called uponhim at the American consulate, and afterward visited the ship. The Taou-tai has a lucrative, but by no means easy office. Among his other duties, hehas to watch, especially, the inter

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