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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and Y"m-&ll1l'a. The latter was the treaty port , but as the hi&h road t" Yeddo
paned
thro~h
it, the Japane ..
had
chosen t o change it
t"
the other I1de.
Thil eause'" m'.1Ch d1ltCusaign bet...,en the reapeetive authorities, but as
it
becllZ:l8 evident that y"k'hA"":l& WAS the better place,
it
&
Taduall¥ subsided.
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Harril thought tbe Japaneae were concealing
s~
aatute plan
to deceive foreignera , but their good faith aoon
11'&1
plain to h1nl , They
lub..quently gave him
ample
excuse for his suepieions in other directionll .
During the whole of our p!:l.aalll;e frOlll Simod.a to Yokebe'
u ,
Fuaytlllla WRII in
lIight. The Japanese call this the "!Latchle"" UOuntain. In lI!:ape, it
is
the perfect frulltI'll!ll of a cone .
I kept the Anl.erican ensign and
the
house signal used by the 'll"an-
derer II t'!'..e firllt foreign fllll;l ever flown in the
ll8,y
of Yeddo.
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Japanelle had
~de
&
Teat preparations for foreign trade at
Yok-harn- . There
11'&1
a ane stone pier, and Cu.stOIll
~U$fl
buildings a_d. a
perfect town of .hoplI . lIut when we tried to avail of the llhope, we ran
lII;ainlit a ,.nag. It was a treaty lltipulation that
fOrel~ney
should be
ucnanged for Japanese, weight for weight. We thus should have got about
three Itzebus for one dollar . To evade thill, but with what motive no
f ellow_could find out , the Japa
had
~de
a new coin which they valW!d at
half an Itzebu. and called, I think, a ne.hu. 'l'Wo of these weighed
a dollar , but when we haC. got the:ll, and tWII had 0= dollar'lI weight of
silver ,
it
would onl¥ bU¥ half an Itzebu. ' s worth of Japanelfl produce .
OUr
dollar, therefore, onl¥ yielded u.s half an Itze1lu, We co'Jld not stand
such a
d.iBCOun~
as this, and all trede
Will
moc;.:ed in the head. The:'e
wal, of courlle, a grend dllpute between
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him.
the
amount due
accordl~
t" our own underatanding , and h ... would settle
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