CHAPTER III. 



HOMEWARD BOUND. 



RECEIVE ORDERS TO PROCEED WITH THE ENTERPRISE 



TO THE UNITED STATES VIA AUSTRALIA. HONG 



KONG. SOURABAYA, JAVA. ALBANY, WEST AUSTRA- 

 LIA. MELBOURNE, VICTORIA. WELLINGTON, NEW 



ZEALAND. RUN LINE OF DEEP-SEA SOUNDINGS FROM 



WELLINGTON TO MAGELLAN STRAITS. SANDY POINT. 



MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY. 



As this is not a general history of the cruise of the 

 Enterprise, I pass over an interesting period of nearly 

 two years, merely mentioning that the winter of 1883 

 was passed in the waters of Korea, when Chemulpo con- 

 sisted of a handful of small rude houses, and Seoul, the 

 capital, had but two ladies of western civilization 

 within her walls ; that in the spring of 1884 ^^e had the 

 honor of taking our minister, the Hon. John Russell 

 Young, and the commander-in-chief of the U. S. naval 

 forces, Rear-Admiral J. L. Davis, to nearly all the treaty 

 ports in China, including those up the Yangtse River, 

 as far as Hankow ; and that later in the year the 

 Enterprise was present at the bombardment of Foo- 



choo arsenal, Pagoda Anchorage, and witnessed the 



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