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224 HONDA THE SAMURAI. was Tokugawa's. Then there was one of five balls set around a central disk; another had three lady's hats also in a circle ; another looked like a windmill ; still another, a triangle with a square at each line, suggested a problem in trigonometry ; the last of all being nothing else than the design of a pair of spectacles. The flags, streamers, pennants, tufted poles, horse-hair banners, ensigns and standards of all sorts numbered thousands, yet a true national flag Japan did not yet possess, despite the official permission to the daimios to use the red ball or sun-flag. The truth was the nation was cut up into hundreds of petty feudal factions, and when a Japanese said " my country " he meant merely his province or local neighborhood. The country needed pressure from without to give it unity. As the stately barge moved through the cordon of boats, all hands and all heads of sailors and officers were laid prostrate to do homage to envoys of the Yedo government. On land there had been a sudden concentration of population at the little village " across the strand " from Kanagawa. Probably twenty thousand people who had never seen Yokohama before looked upon it now. First there were soldiers. These had been called out of their homes in the raw days of early winter and spring to live in the camps which lined the bluffs and lowlands, though the Americans saw but few of these men of war. Nobody knew but that the American barbarians might begin rapine, and hence the presence of the military armed with old matchlocks and Brown Bess and Dutch muskets.
AN OBJECT LESSON. 225 Most of the soldiers, in hideous-looking armor and helmets with flaring fronts, which made the men look like beetles walking on their hind legs, were posted on the line of bluffs which overlooked the plain. In the center of the flat foreground stood the imposing treaty-house. Farther back and roped off was a space making a hollow square, along which were picked troops ; the fourth line closing the square being the water. The troops on the plain were under arms to keep back the crowds and allow no one inside the ropes except the officers chosen to receive the Americans and attendants. The Japanese made a scene of glittering display, for the variety of colors in the silken robes, the dazzle of lacquered helmets, and gorgeousness of feudal insignia were positively trying to the eyes. On the part of the Americans, twenty-seven boats filled with five hundred men sailors, marines, and musicians were already on the blue waters. At a signal, bows abreast in line, they were pulled to the shore. The officers landed first. Then the marines formed a hollow square, and the three bands of the musicians played lively tunes. The sailors formed lines of blue nearly up to the treaty-tent. When all was ready Perry stepped into a white barge and was rowed to the shore, as the hills echoed with the thunders which the fire and flame of the seventeen guns of the Powhatan evoked by their salute to Perry. As he and his officers were received by the embassadors near the door of the treaty-house, the boat howitzers fired two salutes of twenty-one and
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AN OBJECT LESSON. 225<br />
Most of the soldiers, in hideous-looking armor and<br />
helmets with flaring fronts, which made the men<br />
look like beetles walking on their hind legs, were<br />
posted on the line of bluffs which overlooked the<br />
plain. In the center of the flat foreground stood<br />
the imposing treaty-house. Farther back and roped<br />
off was a space making a hollow square, along<br />
which were picked troops ; the fourth line closing<br />
the square being the water. The troops on the<br />
plain were under arms to keep back the crowds<br />
and allow no one inside the ropes except the officers<br />
chosen to receive the Americans and attendants.<br />
The Japanese made a scene of glittering display,<br />
for the variety of colors in the silken robes, the<br />
dazzle of lacquered helmets, and gorgeousness of<br />
feudal insignia were positively trying to the eyes.<br />
On the part of the Americans, twenty-seven boats<br />
filled with five hundred men sailors, marines, and<br />
musicians were already on the blue waters. At a<br />
signal, bows abreast in line, they were pulled to the<br />
shore. The officers landed first. Then the marines<br />
formed a hollow square, and the three bands of the<br />
musicians played lively tunes. The sailors formed<br />
lines of blue nearly up to the treaty-tent. When<br />
all was ready Perry stepped into a white barge and<br />
was rowed to the shore, as the hills echoed with the<br />
thunders which the fire and flame of the seventeen<br />
guns of the Powhatan evoked by their salute to<br />
Perry. As he and his officers were received by the<br />
embassadors near the door of the treaty-house, the<br />
boat howitzers fired two salutes of twenty-one and