Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Intercourse Between the United States and Japan, Vol. 8: An Historical Sketch
Their glance fixed on the wave, They seek our sun-land at the word Of captain owlish-grave.
While loud they come - the boom of drums And songs in strange uproar; And now with ?esh and herb in store, Their prows turn toward the Western shore.
And slowly ?oating onward go These Black Ships, wave-tossed to and fro.
History begins with poetry, and the history of the Ameri can-japanese intercourse is no exception to this general rule.
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