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Caspar Hoffman, a seaman from the Bark Yokohama came on board and claimed to have belonged to the U.S. Gunboat Suwanee, lying in the harbor of San Francisco, and that while he was on shore, on liberty, he was carried to sea in a merchant ship. Ordered him to remain on board until the Commodore came on board.

At 9 returned to the American Ship Yokohama a man giving his name as Caspar Hoffman belonging to USS Suwanee, whose ship's name on the Yokohama is Lewis Brown.

Jas F. Watson (Q. M.) and Saml Little (Nurse) were brought on board by U.S. Marshal. Confined Jas F. Watson (Q. M.) in double irons for drunkenness and disorderly conduct on shore: maltreating an inhabitant; and Saml Little (Nurse) in double irons to await trial by Genl Court Martial, for furious driving on shore, killing a Japanese.

In 1816, a professor at Prague Polytechnic, Josef Bozek, built an oil-fired steam car.  Walter Hancock, builder and operator of London steam buses, in 1838 built a two-seated car phaeton.

In 1867, Canadian jeweler Henry Seth Taylor demonstrated his four-wheeled "steam buggy" at the Stanstead Fair in Stanstead, Quebec and again the following year. The basis of the buggy, which he began building in 1865, was a high-wheeled carriage with bracing to support a two-cylinder steam engine mounted on the floor. In 1873, Frenchman Amédée Bollée built self-propelled steam road vehicles to transport groups of passengers.

At 1:30 sent an armed launch under charge of Lt Commdr C. F. Cotton, and a file of Marines, in charge of Lt. Meade, on board the Italian Ship Galelo at the request of the Italian Consul at Yokohama, for the purpose of quelling a mutiny on board of said ship. At 3:50 the launch returned bring the following name men (mutineers) on board in single irons.

1. A wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; a magnate.
2. Used formerly as a title for a Japanese shogun.
3. The title by which the shoguns of Japan were known to foreigners from the signing of the treaty negotiated in 1854 by Commodore Matthew Perry, on behalf of the United States, and Iyesada, the shogun and supposed “temporal emperor “of Japan, to the end of the shogunate in 1868, but never recognized by the Japanese.

At 2:40 ran down and sunk a small Japanese Cargo Boat, our close vicinity to which was not known to the officer of the deck Ensign M. B. Buford, who was placed under suspension for gross negligence in the performance of his duty as Officer of the Deck. Stopped the engines: lowered the 1^st Cutter, and sent her, and two boats, which were astern, under the charge of Ensign Honeynecker to their rescue. At 3:15 boats returned with the crew and all the cargo and equipments that floated.