APPENDIX C
FOR THE EMPEROR
Miniature steam engine, ¼. size, with track, tender, and car.
2 telegraph sets, with batteries, three miles of wire, gutta percha wire, and insulators.
1 Francis’ copper lifeboat.
1 surfboat of copper.
Collection of agricultural implements.
Audubon’s Birds, in nine vols.
Natural History of the State of New York, 16 vols.
Annals of Congress, 4 vols.
Laws and Documents of the State of New York.
Journal of the Senate and Assembly of New York.
Lighthouse Reports, 2 vols.
Bancroft’s History of the United States, 4 vols.
Farmers’ Guide, 2 vols.
1 series of United States Coast Survey Charts.
Morris Engineering.
Silver-topped dressing case.
8 yards scarlet broadcloth, and scarlet velvet.
Series of United States standard yard, gallon, bushel, balances and weights.
Quarter cask of Madeira.
Barrel of whiskey.
Box of champagne and cherry cordial and maraschino.
3 boxes of fine tea.
Maps of several states and four large lithographs.
Telescope and stand, in box.
Sheet-iron stove.
An assortment of fine perfumery.
5 Hall rifles.
3 Maynard muskets.
12 cavalry swords.
6 artillery swords.
1 carbine.
20 Army pistols in a box.
Catalogue of New York State Library and of Postoffices.
2 mail bags with padlocks.
FOR THE EMPRESS
Flowered silk embroidered dress.
Toilet dressing-box gilded.
6 dozen assorted perfumery.
FOR COMMISSIONER HAYASHI
Audubon’s Quadrupeds.
4 yards scarlet broadcloth.
Clock.
Stove.
Rifle.
Set of Chinaware.
Teaset.
Revolver and powder.
2 dozen assorted perfumery.
20 gallons of whiskey.
1 sword.
3 boxes fine tea.
1 box of champagne.
1 box of finer tea.
FOR ABE, PRINCE OF ISE, FIRST COUNCILLOR
1 copper lifeboat.
Kendall War in Mexico and Ripley History of the War in Mexico.
1 box of champagne.
3 boxes fine tea.
20 gallons whiskey.
1 clock.
1 stove.
1 rifle.
1 sword.
1 revolver and powder.
2 dozen assorted perfumery.
4 yards scarlet broadcloth.
FOR EACH OF THE OTHER FIVE COUNCILLORS
1 book.2
10 gallons of whiskey.
1 lithograph.
1 clock.
1 revolver.
1 rifle.
1 sword.
12 assorted perfumery.
FOR IDO, PRINCE OF TSUSHIMA, SECOND COMMISSIONER
Appleton’s Dictionary
9 assorted perfumery.
Lithograph of New Orleans.
5 gallons whiskey.
1 box of tea.
1 clock.
1 revolver.
1 rifle.
1 sword.
1 box of cherry cordial.
FOR IZAWA, PRINCE OF MIMASAKI, THIRD COMMISSIONER
Model of lifeboat.
View of steamer Atlantic.
5 gallons whiskey.
1 rifle.
1 revolver.
1 clock.
1 sword.
9 assorted perfumery.
Box of cherry cordial.
Small box of tea.
Brass howitzer and carriages.
FOR UDONO, FOURTH COMMISSIONER
List of post-offices.
Box of tea.
Lithograph of elephant.
9 assorted perfumery.
1 rifle.
1 revolver.
1 clock.
5 gallons whiskey.
1 sword.
Box of cherry cordial.
FOR MICHITARO MATSUZAKI, FIFTH COMMISSIONER
Lithograph of a steamer.
1 revolver.
6 assorted perfumery.
1 clock.
1 sword.
5 gallons whiskey.
Box of tea.
Box of cherry cordial.
In addition there was a quantity of tools, agricultural equipment, and seeds for general distribution.
1. Derived from Powhatan log and S. Wells Williams “A Journal of the Perry Expedition to Japan,” Asiatic Society of Japan Transactions, XXXVII (1910), pages 131—34.
2. The books thus distributed were Lossing Field Book of Revolution, Owen Architecture, Documentary History of New York, Downing Country Houses, and Owen Geology of Minnesota.