Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . 181-AND OF PAPPENBKRG. JOHN BULL IN JAPANESE LADIES AND CHILDREN.—FEOM A NATIVE DEA\rrNG. ent, Mr. Donker Curtius, was absent; he wasnow on his way from the capital where, in com-pany with the American Minister, Mr. Town-send Harris, he had been vainly attempting to ne-gotiate a treaty. Mr. Harris had returned toSimoda, while Mr. Curtius set out for did the sober Dutchman suspect that,while he was prosecuting the long overland jour-ney, his shrewd Yankee friend had learned of thesigning of the Chinese treat
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . 181-AND OF PAPPENBKRG. JOHN BULL IN JAPANESE LADIES AND CHILDREN.—FEOM A NATIVE DEA\rrNG. ent, Mr. Donker Curtius, was absent; he wasnow on his way from the capital where, in com-pany with the American Minister, Mr. Town-send Harris, he had been vainly attempting to ne-gotiate a treaty. Mr. Harris had returned toSimoda, while Mr. Curtius set out for did the sober Dutchman suspect that,while he was prosecuting the long overland jour-ney, his shrewd Yankee friend had learned of thesigning of the Chinese treaty of Tientsin ; hadretraced his steps to Jedo, and had actually ne-gotiated that treaty, Avhich, on the day before wewrite these pages, was solemnly taken from itsscarlet receptacle and presented to the Presidentat Washington, by the first Japanese embassa-dors ever sent to a civilized nation. The old restrictions are done away, and thestrangers were at full liberty to explore Naga-saki and its environs. Mr. Oliphant paints hisJapanese pictures in rose-color; and if we couldaccept them as a fair repr
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