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CONTENTS. 
sions— The gardens, buildings, conveyances, dress — Leave 
Madeira — Pass the Desertas — Cape Anaga, Teneriffe, sighted — 
The Peak — Anchor off Santa Cruz — The buildings and 
streets — Scenery in the country — Ascent of the Peak — 
Cruising amongst the group — Sounding and dredging — Ball 
at the English Consulate — Naval incidents connected with 
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CHAPTER III. 
TENERIFFE (CANARY ISLANDS) TO ST. THOMAS (WEST INDIES). 
Leaving Teneriffe — Sight of the Peak — Commence section across 
the Atlantic — Daily soundings and trawlings — The results — 
Configuration of the bottom — In the Tropics — The officers of 
the ship — Life on board — Our daily doings — Description of 
the mode of sounding — The apparatus and appliances used — 
Taking serial temperatures — Dredging and trawling— Island 
of Sombrero in sight — Arrive and anchor at St. Thomas . . 36 
CHAPTER IV. 
ST. THOMAS (WEST INDIES) TO BERMUDA AND HALIFAX (NOVA SCOTIA), 
AND BACK TO BERMUDA. 
At St. Thomas — The town of Charlotte Amalia — Importance of 
the island— English vessel in distress — Tow her into port — 
Leave St. Thomas — The first death on board — Soundings — 
Burial at sea — Bermuda in sight — Sounding round the reefs — 
St. George’s — The Narrows — Pretty scenery — Reach the 
anchorage in Grassy Bay — The naval yard — Historical sketch 
of the Bermudas — Geological and botanical researches — Leave 
Bermuda — Soundings — The Gulf Stream — Long Island to 
Nova Scotia — In Halifax Harbour — The city and its suburbs 
— Gold and coal mines — Halifax to Bermuda— In the Camber 
— The sand glacier — The caves . 59 
CHAPTER V. 
BERMUDA TO THE AZORES, CAPE DE VERDE, ST. PAUL’S ROCKS, 
FERNANDO NORONHA, BAHIA, TRISTAN d’ACUNHA, AND THE CAPE 
OF GOOD HOPE. 
Leave Bermuda — Sounding round the reefs — Commence another 
section across the Atlantic to the Azores — Anchor off Horta, 
