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.

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.

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

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

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