Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. To avoid repetition, our friendly company are named on paper as they were often designated on board, the Captain, the Professor or Astro nomer, the Doctor, the Musician, and so on. Mr. Francis was apt to be addressed as General, largely because of his masterful management of expedition finances; and Mr. Pemberton was known as Chief, having been many years chief engineer of the U. S. S. Monocacy while attached to our Asiatic squadron. During that time, he had in 1887 accompanied Professor Todd's ear lier expedition to Shirakawa, in central Japan, where his assistance was peculiarly welcome.
