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in September, 1840, — the whole Squadron assembled at 

 Apia early on the 10th of November. At eleven o'clock in 

 the forenoon, the signal was made to get under way ; and in 

 a short time thereafter, all sails were spread to catch the soft 

 breezes of the Pacific. On the 18th instant, they entered the 

 Eastern Hemisphere, when they corrected their time, — one 

 day having been lost in doubling .Cape Horn, as is always 

 the case. Passing round the Feejee Islands, and between 

 them and the New Hebrides, they approached the coast of 

 New Holland on the 29th of November, and at sunset made 

 the light house on the headland of Port Jackson bay. Hav- 

 ing a fair wind, though the night was dark, they ran up to 

 Sydney, seven miles from the mouth of the inlet, without a 

 pilot. On the following morning, the people of the town, and 

 the garrison in particular, were very much chagrined, when 

 they caught sight of the stripes and stars waving over the 

 flotilla which had entered their harbor with so little ceremony, 

 unheralded and unannounced. 



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