Banner rock, Lew Chew, 198.
Banyan, Lew Chew, 868.
Barometrical observations in the Indian ocean, 126.
Barrels, Hokodadi, 525.
Barrow’s bay, Lew Chew, 197,198, 200, 204.
Bastions, substitutes for, in the P o rt of Nagaguska,
Lew Chew, 195.
Baths, public, Simoda, 469.
Battas, a tribe o f the Malays, their dainty cannibalism,
155.
Batteries, Japanese, bay of Tedo, 400.
Beacon fires, Japanese, bay of Uraga, 271.
Beard, a full, black, a distinctive mark of the J a panese
and Lew Chewans, 865.
Beech tree, P eel island, 240.
Beechey (Capt), names the Bonin islands, 226,
his nomenclature of the islands disowned, 280.
position in his chart of Capo Lloyd erroneous,
282.
account of the Lew Chewans, 253.
Beggars, commutation with, a t Canton, 842.
Begging, mode of, Canton, 842.
Belcher (Capt), account of the Lew Chewans, 258.
Bell, a large, presented to Com. Perry by the regent
of L ew Chew, 571.
Bellows in blacksmith’s shop a t Napha, 251. *
Japanese, 526.
Bent (L t), his MS. journal, iv.
pilots the expedition in Napha harbor, 178.
survey o f the bay of Uraga, 274
conversation with Japanese respecting America,
581.
rebukes servility of Sam Patch, 557.
commissioner o f treaty with Lew Chew, 569.
Bettelheim (Dr.), a missionary a t Lew Chew, visits
Com. Perry, 176,177.
remark on the old regent o f Lew Chew, 247.
believes Lew Chew a p art of Japan, 254
remarks on education in Lew Chew, 256.
history of; and his operations in Lew Chew, 258.
a layman, 258.
removal of; 871.
leaves Lew Chew, 572.
Lew Chew official declaration, concerning, 572.
Biny, Japanese rouge, 460.
Birds, scarcity of; L ew Chew, 199.
Bonin islands, 283.
Bishops bay, Macao, 165.
Bettinger (Rev.), visits Kanagawa, Japan, 419.
his exchange of American for Japanese coin,
419.
his kind treatment by the Japanese, 420.
coins obtained by, returned, 426.
Blacksmiths, Japanese, 526.
Blacksmith’s shop, Napha, 251.
Blunt Cape, near Hakodadi, 498.
Boar, wild, Lew Chew, 207.
Peel island, 286.
Board, supposed m urder of, a t Napha, 566.
Boas of Ceylon, 148.
Boatmen, Canton, 848.
Boats, Japanese, 520.
Bocca Tigris, Canton river, 161.
Buonaparte, Napoleon, remarks on war to Basil
Hall, 369.
Bonham, Sir George, conference with Com. Perry,
respecting the Bonin islands, 852.
Bonin islands, 226, 248.
discovery of the, b y the Japanese, 227.
advantages of establishing a naval station at the,
242.
described, 281.
sovereignty of the, 229.
Capt Kelly’s visit to the, 881.
English claim to the, 852.
Books in Japan, 74.
in Lew Chew, 257.
Japanese, 581.
Borodino islands, 245.
Bosquett (M.), a writer on hurricanes, 187.
Boundaries, American, Simoda, 550—Hakodadi,
551.
Boundary of American intercourse in Japan, 546.
Bourboulon (M. De), French minister a t Canton,
85L
Boyle (Lt.), assists the Macedonian, aground in the
bay of Tedo, 879.
places a buoy on a rock, bay o f Tedo, 466.
visits Obason island, 587.
report of a marine volcano, near Formosa, 576.
treatment of the Sillibaboos, 578.
Brabant mountains, Mauritius, 182.
Broom corn, Lew Chew, 196.
Broughton rocks, bay o f Tedo, 878.
Brown (Mr.), daguerreotypist, 178.
Buchanan (Commander), conducts regent of Lew
Chew over the Susquehanna, 247.
interview w ith the governor of Uraga, 278, 281.
leads the escort'of Com. Perry, 293.
first American who landed in Japan, 294
conversation w ith the governor of Uraga, 806.
Buddha, statues of; in the graveyard of Simoda, 471.
Buddhism, extent of its influence, 26.
in Ceylon, 145.
Buddhist priest a t a funeral, Japan, 412.
temples, Simoda, 470, 478.
offerings, 474.
gardens, 476.
religious services, 544
temples, Hakodadi, 512.
occasionally used as places of concourse, 518.
Building erected to receive the letter of the President,
Jap an ,295.
Burial customs, Lew Chew, 870.
of a sailor a t Kakizaki, 491.
Butting a p art of Japanese wrestling, 488.
Buttons, Japanese taste for American, 417.
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Cabinets cPAisance, public, Japan, 528.
Caffre war, consequences of the, 128,126.
Caffres, description of, 125.
Camoens, history of, 165.
cave of, 165.
Camp Perry, Lew Chew, 192.
Camphor tree in Japan, 77.
Cannibalism, daintiness in, 155.
Canton, visit to, 159.
annual trade of, 162.
charitable asylums of; 848.
river, 159.
Cape Colony, population of, 124
Cape de Yerde Islands, the Harmattan observed at,
111.
Cape of Good Hope, route to, from England, 121.
Cape Town, visit to, 121.
Cards, Japanese game of, 588.
Cassa, sent to Japan by Sir Stamford Raffles, 55.
.Castles of Lew Chew, 211.
Cats and hogs, wild, hunted in the Bonin islands,
288;
Catherine, Empress of Russia, directs shipwrecked
Japanese to be sent home, 57.
Cattle a t Simoda, 491.
Cecille (Admiral), explores Lew Chew, 268.
Cedars, Japanese, large size of; 77.
Centipede boats, 182.
Centre islands, Simoda harbor, 480.
Ceylon, visit to, 188.
Chairs, Lew Chew, 217.
Chama gigas, Bonin islands, 282.
Chang-Tuenr the Lew Chew guide, 195.
Chapin (Aldin B.), visits the Bonin islands, 200,250.
an early settler of the Bonin islands, 854
Charcoal, Japanese custom respecting, 869.
Charitable institutions, Canton, 848.
Charms on gravestones, Toku-hama, 472.
Charts of Japanese waters .in use, incorrect, 878.
Chess, Japanese game of, 588.
Chimneys, absence of, Simoda, 467.
Chin-chin to Com. Perry, 177.
China laws regulating etiquette on the death of an
emperor, 874.
benefit of American trade to, 410.
American treaty with, 445, 446.
sea, navigation of the, 156.
China street, Canton, 161.
China, imitation of, in Lew Chew, 256.
Chinese, their claims to have colonized Japan, 10.
language not understood by the Japanese, 11.
commerce with Singapore, 150.
traders, activity of, a t Hong Kong, 15a
coolies inefficient, 198.
coolie, treatment of a sick, 205.
lack of sympathy for a dying comrade, 224.
emigrants, Com. Perry’s , remark on the transportation
of, to California, 248.
claim sovereignty over Loo Choo, 254
account of the origin of the Lew Chewans, 255.
treated as strangers in Lew Chew, 255.
emigrants to Lew Chew, 256.
books in Lew Chew, 257.
revolution, inquiry ( f a Japanese respecting,
803.
abstemiousness of the, 889.
servants, comprador, 840.
feet, women averse to showing, 841.
higher classes, 844
preponderance in Macao, 847.
treaty w ith the United States, a Copy of furnished
to the Japanese commissioners, 408.
imperial troops, conduct to American citizens,
581.
imperial troops, assaults on American merchants,
Shanghai—English and American attack
upon, 584
Chow-Hwang, his account of the origin of the Lew
Chewans, 254
Christianity, its early introduction into Japan
doubtful, 27;
' early introduction into Ceylon, 145.
the common people of Lew Chew favorably disposed
towards, 258.
introduction o f into Japan, 516.
in Japan, 544
Chun-ching, castle of; Lew Chew, 211.
Cleanliness of Lew Chew, 221.
Cleopatra islands, Lew Chew, 877.
Clergyman, treatment of a, in Japan, 516.
Clifford (Lt.), forms the Lew Chew Naval Mission,
258.
Climate of St. Helena, 115.
/of Simoda, 478.
Clipped camellia, Lew Chew, 201.
Clock, Japanese, 69.
Contee (L t), 179.
Coals, abundant in Japan, 76.
supplies of, a prominent object of the Japanese
expedition, 96, 98.
opportune supply o f 188.
depot a t Singapore, 158.
a t Lew Chew, 880.
a t Bonin islands, 852.;
the United States desirous to procure, from J a pan,
298.
building for storing, L ew Chew, 880.
a t Shah bay, Lew Chew, 861.
Japan, 897, 407.
a t Simoda, 552.
analysis of 558.
supply o f from Formosa, 575.
Cockes, Richard, first director of the English factory
in Japan, 46.
Cocoa n u t in Ceylon, 141.
Coffin (Capt.), visits the Bonin islands, 229.
Coffin islands, 229, 288.
Color printing, Japan, 528.
Columbus examines Marco Polo’s writings, 5.
Columbus, visit of the, to Japan, 267.
Commercial treaty, the Japanese decline m aking a,
447.
Compradors of European households in China, 840.
Compton, the Sir H., of the Chinese imperial fleet,
attack on an American pilot boat, 581.
forced to m ake reparation, 582.
Conference a t Hakodadi, 508.
Confiician temples, schools at, 256.
writings, tex t books a t Lew Chew, 257.