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February. Just after passing the Cape, the Vincennes anchored 
in Orange Harbor, and here Pickering and Brackenridge trans- 
ferred to the Relief, where Rich already had his quarters. 
The Relief left Orange Harbor February 26, 1839, sailing: 
slowly up the Chilean coast, but not effecting a landing until 
arrival at Valparaiso, April 15. During the two weeks’ stay at 
this port, Brackenridge collected along the coast north of the 
city, and as far inland as Santiago. Leaving Valparaiso on the 
first day of May, the Relief arrived at Callao on the twelfth. 
_ During the latter half of the month, a considerable party, in- 
cluding Pickering, Rich, and Brackenridge, penetrated the in- 
terior to and a short distance beyond the divide. All of June and 
a part of July was spent in the vicinity of Lima. 
The Vincennes, to which Pickering and Brackenridge had 
again transferred themselves (Rich changing to the other sloop- 
of-war, the Peacock, as the Relief returned home from Callao), 
sailed westward, out into the Pacific, from Callao, July-13, 1839. 
Her course lay through the Low Archipelago to Tahiti and thence 
past Bellinghausen and Rose islands to the Samoan group, send- 
ing out parties to the shore at various islands on the way. Nearly 
three weeks in September were spent in the Tahitian group, and 
a month, from October 8 to November 10, among the Samoan 
Islands, upon several of which Brackenridge collected plants. 
From Samoa, the Vincennes sailed westward, then southward 
between the F iji Islands and New Caledonia, and arrived at 
Sydney, New South Wales, about the end of November, 1839. 
The day after Christmas the Vincennes left Sydney for the 
cruise during which the Antarctic continent was discovered, and, 
returning to Sydney, sailed thence to the Bay of Islands, near 
the northern end of New Zealand, and northward to the Fiji 
Islands. Some three months were spent in this group, from 
early May until nearly the middle of August; Brackenridge col- 
lected on several of the islands. Leaving Fiji and sailing north- 
ward through the Phoenix Islands, over a very zigzag course due 
largely to uncertain weather conditions, the Vincennes came in 
sight of the Hawaiian Islands on the 20th of September, and on 
the 24th cast anchor in the harbor of Honolulu. It was more 
