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Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Punta Arenas, rescuing the crew from a sinking ship on the way. Once through the Straits of Magellan they headed north to Lota in Chile. Leaving Valparaiso on 31 October, they made a brief stop at the small island of Hao Harpe before visiting Tahiti, and a week later headed for Hawaii, then Japan, Hong Kong, Canton, Macao and Singapore. From there to Seychelles, Maldives, India, Sri Lanka, Aden and, via the Suez Canal, to Alexandria before heading to Malta, Gibraltar and Portugal, arriving back home in Hastings on 26 May 1877 having travelled some 36,000 miles.
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and became a best seller, later translated for sales overseas with equal success. Their journey had started at
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had been designed for long distance and deep sea journeys. The accommodation for the owners and their guests, however, was far from
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