The new treaty port of Hakodadi, Japan, 1869. Engraving of a sketch by Sub-Lieutenant Sydney Holt, '...an officer of Cormorant, [which] occupies a central position in this view, while the French war-ship Venus the left-hand corner; his sketch also shows the steam and other vessels of the native rebel town stands on the north-east slope of a peaked by a low sandy isthmus with the mainland of harbour is guarded by a fort of massive granite walls, surrounded by a to be armed with fifty-two
The new treaty port of Hakodadi, Japan, 1869. Engraving of a sketch by Sub-Lieutenant Sydney Holt, '...an officer of Cormorant, [which] occupies a central position in this view, while the French war-ship Venus the left-hand corner; his sketch also shows the steam and other vessels of the native rebel town stands on the north-east slope of a peaked by a low sandy isthmus with the mainland of harbour is guarded by a fort of massive granite walls, surrounded by a to be armed with fifty-two [Hakodate] is a place of particular interest, being the seat of the Japanese civil war, and in possession of the rebels, or so-called "exiled Karais," whose object is to separate the island of Yezo from the other islands of Japan and to establish a government under the Prince of Enomoto-kamadjaro commands the fleet, which our correspondent has endeavoured to represent. This consists of the Emperor, a ; the Eagle, a ; and the Dumbarton, paddle; while the Askuelot, another screw-vessel,...may be seen at the left , with a little steamer called the Chipolo Maru, compose the rebel fleet of Yezo'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.
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