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My health is miserable, my appetite is gone, and I am so
shrunk away that I look as though a ‘Vice-Consul had been cut
out of me.’ 11
Finally, in September, a foreign ship docked in Shimoda and Harris’s
dietary hardships were over:
I cannot find words to express my thanks to Captain Foote
and the officers of the Portsmouth for the generous manner in
which they have divided their own private stores to help me in
my distressed situation. Captain Foote supplied me with a
quarter box of superior tea, two jars of lard, and a bag of prepared
hominy. From the ward room I received half a dozen
fine Virginia hams and five smoked tongues. I had nothing to
give them in return but barren thanks. 12
The situation improved greatly once the Western community in the
treaty ports grew larger after 1859, with regular supplies of provisions
and the equipment necessary to maintain Western cuisine secured. Inns
and hotels were among the first businesses that emerged in Yokohama and
Americans baking bread, a woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshikazu (1861).
Foreigners engaged in cooking, a woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshikazu (1860).
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