CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Introduction i 



Chapter I. — Assume Command of the Enterprise g 



Voyage of Cape Town via Cape de Verde Islands. 



Chapter II. — Voyage from Cape Town to China 29 



Simons Bay. — Port Elizabeth. — Natal. — Madagascar. — Comoro 

 Islands. — Zanzibar. — Seychelle Islands. — Straits of Sunda. — Warned 

 by a Dutch Man-of-War of the Dangers to Navigation occasioned by 

 the Eruption of Krakatoa. — Destruction of Anjer. — Arrival at 

 Batavia. — Singapore. 



Chapter III. — Homew^ard Bound 62 



Receive Orders to proceed with the Enterprise to the United 

 States via Australia. — Hong Kong. — Sourabaya, Java. — Albany, West 

 Australia. — Melbourne, Victoria. — Wellington, New Zealand. — Run 

 Line of Deep-sea Soundings from Wellington to Magellan Straits. — 

 Sandy Point. — Montevideo, Uruguay. 



Chapter IV.— Homeward Bound— (Continued) 97 



Discover an Extensive Bank. — Connect with Line of Soundings 

 taken in 1883 by the Enterprise on Outward Voyage, and thus com- 

 plete the Circumnavigation of the Globe. — Barbados. — St. Thomas. — 

 New York. — Enterprise goes out of Commission. 



Table Summarizing the Soundings taken throughout the Cruise no 



List of Officers attached to the Enterprise on the Day of Sailing 

 from Norfolk, December 27, 1882 128 



List of Officers attached to the Enterprise upon her Return to 

 the United States, March, 1886 129 



List of Men who were on Board the Enterprise during the Whole 

 Cruise 130 



List of Men who went out in the Ship but did not return in her. . 132 



