Manjiro John Nakahama
Translator, Samurai
San Francisco Ship Dock
March 19th, 1860
It has been several days since we first docked in the beautiful city of San Francisco. The men are slowly but surely starting to adapt to this new and foreign environment. We've already met many important officials but today we had a chance to meet some of the civilian residents. We invited the residents of the city to come see our majestic Kanrin Maru, the very vessel that made our journey here possible. Captain Kimura talked about the ship- how it was made, and about crew- who we are, what we've done so far on our journey. As I am one of the only English-Japanese speakers here, I did most of the translating. It was nice to get some practice speaking English again. My grammar is quite rusty. Overall, I was amazed at how interested the locals were in our ship; they asked question after question. It was nice to interact with everyone.
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