Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
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After a
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t8¥
of e.bout a week in Naga.aki we left for
Slmoda.
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four or five dP,Jl's slow steaming from r:agaaak1 .
It
11
nothing but.
little hole 1n the co.", and .as probabl¥ selected 01 the Japanese from
it.
utter indgnlf1canee.
It
18
not a eafe anchora,te . the
Ruulan
frigate
Diana having been 10llt
the:re
a year or h'o before by an enormous tidal
wave
that
CIl:lle
i nto the harbor and c.at her , hopelesllly
a.hore . The
Jap-
aneBe had , however, a.tabU.hed a
bau.ar
at SilllOda. Jl'hleb1I'e afterwards
found "al .e inferior to Yeddo , as Nagaeeki 1>all to
Simoda.
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t
we
had.
seen nothiIl& better, and , t'!lerefore. laid in another .tock of trash.
1
O'Uf;ht
to
Sa;\".
however ,
that
the
bron~n
.
e got at
1
IlIga,ski
were finer
than
W1:I
got Bubaequently e l ee.he r e .
at
Simoda we law for
the
flrllt time
the
bathing hcnuel of
the
Jap-
anua. Both leUI bathe together
.
ithout
any lelll'!e of ,ha:ne.-
inlieed.
they pTobably feel none . Simoda 18 a very beautiful p l ace ._
nothi~
grand.
but as pretty, in a s:!lall wlQ' , 8os
it
can be .
While here, the Wanderer cao..e in , 1 IDd lent her fro:n
Shanghai ,
witJ:l
a view of her
bei~
on the spot when the country wa. open, to
t~e
advmtage
of what lIIight turn 11.,. Ravin.. been first on the YWl&tsze. 1 wanted to be
tile
first in Japan, for the
X:u~os
of
it .
To
lIlY great surpr18e, 8.."'"!d a t
the Bs.le time to
rsr:;
great delight, Captain Nichallon offered to tow her
'
lip
to Yeddo, about 80 mile. , I had no idea that a maIl-of-war could do IUCh
a tbin,g , but
it
S8$11\S that I was a favorite . We left for Yeddo, or , a.
t
suppose it would be more cor:oect to se,y , Kane,g!nra , on the 30th of June.
We had
t~'le
Wanderer, and a160 a
Junk:
with
Ur,
Harril' hou.seho l d effect. ,
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de,y
_
s beautiful.
The
Wanderer was the first merchant venal
that
had.
eyer paned the Strait. or Uraga, All others had been stop,ed
there , Ife pro;>ceeded o;>n until .e finally dro)pped anchor between Yok·b"""
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