[51] Young Japan, J. R. Black.
[52] A Cruise in Japan waters, and Japan fragments.
[53] November 1st, 1859.
[54] Commodore Tatnall told this to Gideon Nye. See Mr. Nye’s letter, January 31st, 1859, to the Hong Kong Times; reprinted in pamphlet form Macao, March 22, 1864.
[55] See their names, and dates of the Mississippi’s movements, in “A Cruise in the U. S. S. Frigate Mississippi,” July 1857 to February 1860, by W. F. Gragg, Boston, 1860.
[56] It was in the educational service of this baron and his son, that the writer went to Japan and lived in Echizen. The Mikado’s Empire, pp. 308, 426-434, 532-536.
[57] Episodes in a Life of Adventure, p. 163, by Laurence Oliphant, 1887.
[58] Townsend Harris’s words to the writer, October 9th, 1874.
[59] Cruise of the Marquesas, London, 1886.