Man upon the sea - or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time (1858) (14596849470)

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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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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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I i MAN UPON THE SEA. 531 judicious and honorable treatment, to experience and acknow-ledge the benefits of commerce and intercourse with the nationsof Christendom. To return once more to the Arctic researches. Soon afterthe return of Belcher and McClure to England, decisive intelli-ence of Franklin and his party was received in England. Dr.Rae, who had been engaged for a year past in a search byland, had met a party of Esquimaux who were in possession ofnumerous articles which had belonged to Franklin and his men.They stated that in the spring of 1850 they had seen fortywhite men, near King Williams Land, dragging a boat andsledges over the ice. They were thin and short of provisions:their officer was a tall, stout, middle-aged man. Some monthslater the natives found the corpses of thirty persons upon themainland, and five dead bodies upon a neighboring island.They described the bodies as mutilated; whence Dr. Rae in-ferred that the party had been driven to the horrible resourceof ca