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The Flag-Ship Volume 2; Or, a Voyage Around the World in the United States Frigate Columbia

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1840 Excerpt: ... SECTION XII. Doubling Cape Horn. Rio De Janeiro. Home. The two ships part company. Gale off Cape Horn. Piece of a wreck. Arrival at Rio de Janeiro, the point of our last departure from the West for the Eastern world. Rest. Story of the second visit to Rio delayed. Leaving the haibour of Rio de Janeiro. Difficulty in regaining the impression that we are nearing home, after a long voyage abroad. Off Cape Hatteras. Reflections. Things seen in the cruise. Anticipated welcome. Lines--The Traveller's return to his own dear Home. The Columbia parted company with her consort, the John Adams, when but two or three days out of Callao, and the two ships stood separately on their track, to double Cape Horn. The Cape is ever regarded as a disagreeable necessity to be encountered, in making the passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; and the return, though less dreaded, is still formidable in the apprehensions of seamen. For ourselves, after a voyage of near two years in the tropics, we anticipated some suffering from cold; with some severe weather, though the season of the year was favourable for doubling a point, which had been more appropriately called by the early appellative of the sister promontory of the Eastern hemisphere, the " Cape of all Terrors." The winds continued to freshen as we made our southing, until a gale and snow storm and hail greeted us as boon companions, on our course. But our ship, under close-reefed topsail and reefed foresail drove before it, and with the exception of laying to for some five hours, continued on our course with a traverse of ten or eleven knots the hour. On the seventh of April, we reached our southernmost point--the winds blowing, at times the preceding night, a hurricane, and on one occasion during the mid watch a sea was ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150182464
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 116
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150182466
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 222 gr


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