In February the commodore returned for the Emperor’s reply to the President’s message requiring a commercial treaty. He came with the steamers _Powhatan_, _Mississippi_, and _Susquehanna_, with the _Lexington_, _Vandalia_, and _Macedonian_ in tow. They insisted on anchoring farther up the bay than before--at Yokohama, within nine miles of the capital. Here the commodore continued the practices of the former visit, and the business of the expedition was concluded in the signing of a treaty which granted everything that the Americans could reasonably demand--a treaty, it is worth noting, that has been of greater benefit to Japan than to the nation that insisted on making it. [Illustration: The Final Page of the First Treaty with Japan. _From a facsimile of the original._] And to the very great honor of the American Navy it was made without bloodshed as well as without a single humiliating concession. In fact, the Japan expedition emphasizes the assertion that whenever matters of foreign diplomacy have been left to the discretion of the officers of the Navy both the honor of the nation and justice have been carefully guarded. [Illustration: Commodore Perry Meeting the Imperial Commissioners at Yokohama. _From a lithograph in Perry’s “Narrative.”_] An amusing feature of the history of this expedition is found in the periodicals of the day, where it is said that the Japanese idea of entertaining their guests was a “disgusting exhibition” of the skill of their wrestlers, while the American idea of a return entertainment was a “brilliant” negro minstrel show in which the seamen of the fleet performed as well as the professional talent at “Christy’s” on Broadway might have done. [Illustration: Japanese Wrestlers at Yokohama. _From a lithograph in Perry’s “Narrative.”_]