. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. £3. ^BK^f^ t^M. Scenes in Japanese Cemeteries EXCLUSIVE POLICY ADHERED TO 273 Matheson proceeded, on the 31st, to the bay of Shimoda,on the other side of the promontory of Izu, where hespent five days in surveying, and was detained two dayslonger by the weather. After the second day, he wasvisited by an interpreter, who understood Dutch, and bytwo officers from Uraga, apparently spies on each other,to watch his proceedings; and finally an officer of rank,from a town thirteen miles off, came on board. Therewere three fishing
. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. £3. ^BK^f^ t^M. Scenes in Japanese Cemeteries EXCLUSIVE POLICY ADHERED TO 273 Matheson proceeded, on the 31st, to the bay of Shimoda,on the other side of the promontory of Izu, where hespent five days in surveying, and was detained two dayslonger by the weather. After the second day, he wasvisited by an interpreter, who understood Dutch, and bytwo officers from Uraga, apparently spies on each other,to watch his proceedings; and finally an officer of rank,from a town thirteen miles off, came on board. Therewere three fishing villages at the anchorage, and he landedfor a short time, but the Japanese officers followed, beg-ging and entreating him to go on board again. The shipwas supplied with plenty of fish, and boats were furnishedto tow her out. In 1850, the Japanese sent to Batavia, in the annualDutch ship, three American sailors who had been left in1848 on one of the Kurile Islands, also thirty-one othersailors belonging to the English whaling-ship Edmund,of Robertstown, wrecked on the coast of Yez
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