. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. s the east. The sun, how-ever, on approaching the zenith, cleared away the fog, and fortunately bearingswere distinguished which served as a guide to the port. As the cape, calledby the Japanese Surro-kubo, and which the Commodore named Cape Blunt,in honor of his friends Edmund and George Blunt, of New York, wasapproached, there could be discerned over the neck of land which connectsthe promontory of Treaty Point * with the interior, the three ships of thesquadron which had been previously cispatched, safely at
. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. s the east. The sun, how-ever, on approaching the zenith, cleared away the fog, and fortunately bearingswere distinguished which served as a guide to the port. As the cape, calledby the Japanese Surro-kubo, and which the Commodore named Cape Blunt,in honor of his friends Edmund and George Blunt, of New York, wasapproached, there could be discerned over the neck of land which connectsthe promontory of Treaty Point * with the interior, the three ships of thesquadron which had been previously cispatched, safely at anchor in theharbor of Hakodadi. At the approach of the steamers, in obedience to theprevious instructions of the Commodore, boats came off from the ships withofficers prepared to pilot in the Powhatan and Mississippi, which finally cameto anchor at nine oclock on the morning of the 17th of May. The spacious and beautiful bay of Hakodadi, which for accessibility andsafety is one of the finest in the world, lies on the north side of the Strait * So called on the American ?\>y-* iii^! f (i , HARBOR OF HAKODADI. 499 of Sangar, which separates the Japanese islands of Nippon and Yesso, andabout midway between Sirija-saki,* the northeast point of the former andthe city of Matsmai. The bay bears from the cape ^ W. distantabout forty-five miles, and is four miles wide at its entrance and runs fivemiles into the land. The navigation of the Straits of Sangar, as far as it was examined bythe officers of the expedition, proved to be safe and convenient, and theentrauce to the port of Hakodadi as accessible as that of Simoda, which issaying everything in its favor. Like Simoda, Hakodadi has an outer andinner harbor, the former being formed by the bay, which is somewhat ofhorse-shoe shape. And here, too, as at Simoda, a dangerous obstructionwas timely discovered and buoyed out, consisting of a long spit of shoalwater, making out from the centre of the town to an extent of ab
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