The cruise of Her Majesty's ship "Challenger" : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands . CUSTOMS GUARD HOUSE, VALPARAISO, CHILI. CHAPTER XVI. Society Islands to Juan Fernandez and Valparaiso (Chili). Leave Tahiti — Parting scenes — Westerly winds — Sounding andtrawling — Juan Fernandez in sight — Picturesque scenery—Kobinson Crusoe—Anchor in Cumberland Bay—The tablet atCrusoes look-out — The Settlement past and present — LeaveJuan Fernandez—The run to Valparaiso—Arrival and anchoroff the city—The city and harbour—Swinging ship for magneticcorrections. Oct. 3rd.—This morning steamed out c
The cruise of Her Majesty's ship "Challenger" : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands . CUSTOMS GUARD HOUSE, VALPARAISO, CHILI. CHAPTER XVI. Society Islands to Juan Fernandez and Valparaiso (Chili). Leave Tahiti — Parting scenes — Westerly winds — Sounding andtrawling — Juan Fernandez in sight — Picturesque scenery—Kobinson Crusoe—Anchor in Cumberland Bay—The tablet atCrusoes look-out — The Settlement past and present — LeaveJuan Fernandez—The run to Valparaiso—Arrival and anchoroff the city—The city and harbour—Swinging ship for magneticcorrections. Oct. 3rd.—This morning steamed out clear of thereefs, and so had the parting view of Tahiti. Thebreeze freshened in our favour, and steam was dis-pensed with. When a good offing had been made, acourse was shaped south-east, and beautiful Tahiti,with its imposing and irregular outline of hills and. SOUNDING AND TBAWLINO. 337 rich vegetation, was soon left behind us like ashadowy vision of dream-land. We had a capital breeze, and all seemed to pro-mise a speedy run over the solitary waste of watersintervening in the 5000 miles between Tahiti andValparaiso. On October 17th, however, the wind headed us;and until the 21st we were running on a southerlycourse. When reaching latitude 40° 8; south, longi-tude 132° 52 west, we picked up the commencementof the westerlies, which carried us on until the 3rdNovember, in latitude 39° 22, longitude 98° 46, and1368 miles from our destination. For a week nowwe had calms, during which steam was used forabout 300 miles. On the 8th a breeze sprang up,but it was of short duration, and the remainderof the distance, until sighting the island of JuanFernandez, was performed under steam. Thus nearly six weeks passed, during which sound-ings were obtained on twenty different occasions,showing an average of 2160 fathoms (the leastbeing 1500, and grea
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