Identifier: narrativeofexped05perr (find matches)
Title: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
Subjects: United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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of the self-willed Yankees, and their resolute determination to have their own way,wherever it might lead, that they seemed half afraid of urging the right,when they knew the Americans were pursuing the wrong. It was thus,from the apparent distrust in their own knowledge on the part of the LewChewans, that the party from the ship had followed their own bent, butfinding at last that it was wrong, they trusted to the leadership of theirguides. * On returning through the rice fields towards the bridge of Ishirashi, asthe natives called it, and which was supposed to be the same as that ofMadaiv-darki, as it had been termed by Dr. Bettleheim, the Lew Chewanspointed up to some ruined walls which stood upon the brink of a lofty andprecipitous hill, which overlooked the town of Napha, and a large circuit ofthe country and the surrounding waters. The report, as drawn up by one of the party and laid before the Commo-dore, describes Tima-gusko as distant four miles in a southeast direction from
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CASTLE OF TIMA-GUSKO. 329 Napha, and as being on a large scale, covering about eight acres, but in astate of utter ruin. It seemed to have no regular plan, and the walls hadbeen erected upon various projecting points of the rock, and often parallel toeach other in several lines, for the purpose of strengthening the defences.The neck of the headland connecting it with the hills behind had been sepa-rated by a moat, which was, however, hardly perceptible from the profusegrowth of vegetation, which filled it up and concealed it from the eye. Ona lofty eminence of the headland there was an oblong space shut in withwalls, and thickly crowded with a dense thicket of trees and undergrowth.This part of the fortress was in a better state of preservation than the rest,and the original height of the wall, which reached about twelve feet, was dis-cernible. On the western side there was a massive arched gateway, with awooden door, closed by what appeared to be a Chinese lock. As a largetree, growi

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