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

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

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

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.

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

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