Yedo
Jado Jona
957501
June 1. 1872.
view of colonizing that Island.
I am,
Sir,
your most obedient
humble servant
...
No 12.
My Lord,
I have the honour to
report to your Lordship that
hundreds of labourers have recently been despatched by the Japanese Gov. to the Island of Jezo, and that fifteen hundred more
are to follow them. They are, for the most part,
volunteers from the province of Satsuma, and the first work
The Earl Granville K. G.