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Days 



Left Konigsberg, Baltic Sea, April 25-6 2 



Stettin, Sunda) , April 27th 1 



Berlin, April 28-9 2 



Berlin-I [amburg, April 30th 1 



Hamburg from May 1st to June 1st 32 



Altogether 38 



On board of the "Victoria" — 



Hamburg Harbor, June 2d, to 4th 3 



On the River Elbe, June 5th to nth 7 



In the North Sea, June 12th t< 1 1 7th 6 



In the Canal, June 18th to 21st 4 



In the Bay of Biscaya, June 22(1 to 26th 5 



63 

 In the Atlantic from June 27th to Wednesday, Sept. 17th, 



1851 • 83 



In the South Sea from Sept. [8th to Oct 8th 20 



In the Harbor of Corral, Chile, Oct. 9~i8th 10 



From Corral to Valparaiso Oct. 19-2 1 st 3 



In Valparaiso Harbor, from October 22d to Nov. 15th ,24 



On board of the "Aurora" — 



From Valparaiso, to San Francisco, Sunday, Nov. if>th to 



Thursday. Jan. 15th, 1852 60 



According to which record the whole trip from Konigsberg, East 

 Prussia to San Francisco, California, was made in two hundred 

 and sixty-three days. 



At the end of the letter, dated January the 1 ith, I find the fol- 

 lowing nautical record, covering the trip from Valparaiso to 

 California, lacking but a few days, to make it complete; the next 

 letter, however, contains the detailed description of that missing 

 period. The existence of a record covering the second half of 

 his trip, leaves no doubt that the methodical author had previously 

 drawn up the now missing document. But let us peruse, what we 

 have before us : 



Nautical Record of the trip made on board of the Hamburg 

 Brigg "Aurora," Capt. Mildenstein, from Valparaiso, Chile, to 

 San Francisco, California. November 185 1 to January, 1852, A. D. 

 185 T. 



Nov. 16 — Leave Harbor of Valparaiso at eleven A. M. Beau- 

 tiful weather and light south wind prevailing. 



Nov. 17 — South wind, mild, little cloudv. 



Nov. 18— 75 4' W. L. 28 33' Lat. Fresh south wind. Good 

 weather. 



