Letter
Hayoshi Gontenji to I have read foregoing translation of the returned report by M. Hayoshi Gontenji, and have compared it with the minutes kept by myself on the same occasion, and find it to be correct. We found all the Chinese passengers confined below deck. G. W. HILL, August 15, 1872
[Inclosure 2.] Translation from Japanese minutes of visit to ship, return, and report of Hayoshi Gontenji and Geo. Hill. On the 14th day of the seventh month, at one and…