 Fukuzawa Yukichi, the future educator and reformer, but then only a young man eager to see foreign lands, had volunteered his services as an assistant to Admiral Kimura.The Japanese embassy itself traveled aboard a U.S. Navy ship, the USS "Powhatan", which the "Kanrin Maru" escorted - albeit taking a different route across the Pacific and arriving before the "Powhatan".The Japanese embassy was formally composed of three men