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Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ...
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Goodrich, Frank B. (Frank Boott), 1826-1894
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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North Star, which had been laid up for twoyears. They arrived in England late in September. Thereader will at once recognise the Resolute as the ship whichwas found in Baffins Bay, in 1855, by Captain Buddington,of the New London whaler George Henry. She had forcedher way, unaided by man, through twelve hundred miles ofArctic ice. The incidents of her arrival at New London, ofthe abandonment to the American sailors of all claim upon herby the British Government, of her purchase by the UnitedStates Congress from her new owners, her re-equipment at theBrooklyn Navy-Yard, and her restoration to the .English Navyby Captain Hartstene, U.S.N., are still fresh in the mindsof all. In the year 1853, an expedition sent by the United States under Commodore Perry ventured into waters never before ploughed by vessels of a Christian nation. On the 8th of 34 530 MAN UPON THE SEA. July, the precipitous southern coast of Niphon — the largestisland of the Japanese group — loomed up through the fog.
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JAPANESE VESSEL. The American steamers entered the Bay of Jeddo, eight mileswide at the mouth but spreading to a width of twelve beyond.They were now land-bound, with the shores of an empirealmost fabulous enclosing them on every side. Thoughperemptorily forbidden to anchor, though surrounded bymyriads of boats filled with men eager for a conflict, thoughmenaced by forts which seemed formidable till examinedthrough the glass, the fleet kept on, and finally, by dint ofpersistence and several salutary displays of power, the commo-dore, having at his disposal the national steamers Susquehanna,Mississippi, and Powhatan, the frigate Saratoga, and the shipsMacedonian, Vandalia, Lexington, and Southampton, wrungfrom the sullen monopolists a treaty opening to American tradethe port of Simoda, in Niphon, and- that of Hakodadi, in Jesso.It now remains for the Americans to lead the Japanese, by m

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