CHAPTER I.
FAREWELL TO OLD ENGLAND.
Masts, spires, and strand receding on the right,The glorious main expanding on the bow.
At noon on July 1st, 1876, we said good-bye to the friends who had come to Chatham to see us off, and began the first stage of our voyage by steaming down to Sheerness, saluting our old friend the 'Duncan,' Admiral Chads's flagship, and passing through a perfect fleet of craft of all kinds. There was a fresh contrary...
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