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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and should surely execute it. Hefurther added that he should expect such a reception as became his rank andposition as commander of the squadron and diplomatic representative of theUnited States in those regions; and with a distinct understanding, if notacquiescence, on the part of the regent, to this effect, he took his departure. One result of the visit was very agreeable to the officers, for permissionwas immediately given them to go on shore, accompanied with a request thatthey would in no case intrude themselves where their presence might seemto be disagreeable to the natives. They very soon availed themselves of theprivilege, and a party (of which Mr. Taylor was one) landed at the foot ofthe rock upon which Dr. Bettelheim had erected his flagstafi. They foundthe shore to be coral rock covered with a dense and luxurious vegetation ;and about the distance of twenty yards from flood tide mark, the gardens ofthe natives commenced, divided from each other by coral walls and bristling
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j^s -c-^vcNi-: LEW CHEW PEASANT. APPEARANCE OF NAPHA. 181 hedges of yucca and cactus. Mr. Taylor thus describes this his first land-ing on Lew Chew: Several groups of Lew Chewans watched our landing,but slowly retired as we approached them. The more respectable, distin-guished by the silver pins in their hair, made to us profound salutations. Thelower classes wore a single garment of brown cotton or grass-cloth, and thechildren were entirely naked. Even in the humblest dwellings there was anair of great neatness and order. Most of them were enclosed within highcoral walls, in the midst of a small plot of garden land, some of which con-tained thriving patches of tobacco, maize, and sweet potatoes. Threading the winding lanes of the suburb for a short distance, wecame into the broad paved road which leads from Napha to Sheudi. It is anadmirable thoroughfare, almost equal to the macadamized roads of England.The walls on either hand of coral rock are jointed together with great pre-cision

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