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When the fleet departed Japan for the final time, Perry sailed aboard the ''Mississippi''.
When the fleet departed Japan for the final time, Perry sailed aboard the ''Mississippi''.
The ''Mississippi'' then returned to Japan in [[1858]], making port at Nagasaki on 1858/5/13, and departing on 6/9. The ship then arrived at Shimoda on 6/13, informed US consul general [[Townsend Harris]] about British and French activities in East Asia, and departed alongside the ''Powhatan'' on the 15th. <ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 566, 584.</ref>
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