The Japanese Mission at Hong Kong.
--A letter from on board the U. S. steam-frigate
Niagara, at
Hong Kong, says the Japanese embassy were all in good health, but heartily tired of their long voyage:
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The Princes are now becoming quite anxious to reach home.
They have been inquired for by many officers, who wanted to be presented to them, but they desire to remain
incog. All the Princes do not leave the ship at the same time; one remains, it seems, for a sort of watch-officer. "
John Chinaman" is delighted to see his
Oriental brethren, but they give him rather a sneering look when he approaches to enter into conversation, as they can understand each other very well. "
Tommy" is in excellent spirits, but as he draws nearer home he is becoming more intimate with the servants, whom he frowned upon in
America, when he thought he was considered a high officer of the embassy, and a blood relation of a Prince.
For the benefit of the ladies who made so much of him in the
United States, and one of whom he says he is going to marry, I will here state that he is nothing more than the adopted son of the second interpreter, Tateish Tokoguro, and came out as his servant; but, being a bright boy, and quick to learn, he soon got up a reputation, but which, I am sorry to say, is now fast dying away.
Poor boy!
little does he think that if he were to return to the
United States, as he is still bent upon doing, and wants to have an application made by some of our officers to the "Tycoon" for permission for himself and several other Japanese boys to go to the Naval Academy, that he would not be noticed, and most likely, before many weeks would elapse, he would be under the painful necessity of selling ground nuts in the streets of New York.
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