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| | Commodore Matthew Perry's Visit to the Bonin Islands, June 1853 |
 | | The islands were visited by Captain Beechey in1827, and, with the proverbial modesty and justice of English surveyors, named by him, as if they had been then first observed. |
 | | Captain Coffin, whose nationality is not mentioned, but who, from his name, was probably an American, and if so, doubtless from Nantucket, visited and gave his name to that part of the group so singularly appropriated and modestly christened by Beechey as the Bailey Islands. |
 | | It was not until 1827 that Captain Beechey, commanding the English surveying vessel, the Blossom, visited the islands, and taking formal possession in the name of the British king, gave English titles to them. |
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