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The Cruise of HMS Calliope in China, Australian and East African Waters, 1887-1890 (Paperback)
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The Cruise of HMS Calliope in China, Australian and East African Waters, 1887-1890 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History
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Arthur Cornwallis Evans (1860 1935) was chaplain on the steamship
HMS Calliope on a three-year voyage to Asia and Australia (January
1887 to April 1890) that covered 76,814 nautical miles (88,395
miles), with more than 500 days spent at sea. He compiled this
lively account of the voyage at the request of his shipmates,
drawing information from several of their journals, and published
it in Portsmouth in 1890 before the crew dispersed. It contains
both brief factual entries about the progress of the voyage and
more sustained descriptions of life on board ship and in port,
including some naval culinary 'delicacies', an encounter with a
robber in Hong Kong, the Russian foritifications at Vladivostok,
fireworks in Sydney celebrating the centenary of New South Wales,
the opening of Calliope Dock in Auckland (still in use today),
visits to several Pacific islands, cricket matches and regattas,
and an eclipse of the sun."
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