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CRUISE OF E.MS. CHALLENGER. 
barrier, and after a short survey to sail for Melbourne 
Sydney, and the ports of New Zealand. If time and 
other circumstances would permit, it was intended 
again to proceed south, for the purpose of visiting the 
small islands of Campbell, Macquarie, Auckland, &c.; 
then again north, sailing to Friendly and Fiji Islands, 
onward through the Coral Sea ; visiting the south 
coast of New Guinea, passing Torres Straits and the 
Arafura Sea, calling at Timor and Macassar, thence 
shaping our course through the Celebes and Lulu 
Seas to Manilla, which would probably be reached in 
November 1874. 
From Manilla the Challenger was directed to sail 
eastward into the Pacific, calling at those little fre- 
quented regions, the Pelew Islands, New Britain, New 
Ireland, and the Solomon Group, en route for Japan. 
After leaving Japan, a course was to be taken 
across the Northern Pacific to Vancouver’s Island, and 
thence southward through the eastern trough of the 
great ocean to V alparaiso, calling at Easter Island 
and Sala y Gomez. On leaving Valparaiso, it was 
proposed to return to the Atlantic through the 
Straits of Magellan, and by Rio Janeiro and St. 
Helena to England, which would probably be reached 
early in 1876. The globe will thus have been cir- 
cumnavigated, and the great oceans traversed from 
north to south, and from east to west. How far this 
programme was carried out will be seen by the 
following chapters. 
