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Excerpt from Cruise of the Alert: Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian and Mascarene Waters
The latter part Of the orders was subsequently changed, inas much as we were directed to omit the survey of the western shores of Australia, and were ordered instead, oii completing the North Australian work, to proceed to Singapore, in the Straits of Malacca, to refit. Thence we were to return home by the Cape of Good Hope, stopping on our way at the Seychelles, Amirante Islands, and Mozambique, in order to fix astronomically the position of the Amirante group, and, as opportunities occurred, to take a line of soundings off the east coast of Africa.
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