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Australia. To obtain the logbooks he placed advertisements in the Victorian
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in 1849; and becoming much interested in polar exploration, continued his studies in terrestrial magnetism, oceanography, navigation, and nautical astronomy. To obtain practical experience he made a voyage to
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