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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