In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.