The Forgotten Voyage of Charles Wilkes |
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aboard the Peacock aboard the Vincennes Alden aloft Antarctic arrived Arro ashore beach began bergs boat crew Cape Cape Disappointment Captain Hudson Charles Wilkes chart chief coast Columbia River commander cruise deck Drake Passage Exploring Expedition fathoms Fiji flagship floes Flying Fish gale Honolulu Hudson ordered hull ice barrier icebergs island group James Clark Ross January 26 journey land latitudes Lieutenant Emmons lookout Mauna Loa miles mountain musket natives Navy night ocean officers Opotuno Orange Harbor Oregon Territory Pacific Palmer Peninsula party passed Peacock Porpoise position reached reefs rendezvous reported returned rigging Ringgold Ross safe Samoan Sandwich Islands Sea Gull sent ship's shoals shore sighted small boats Sooloo sound southern southward squadron storm Sualib surf survey Sydney Tonga took trouble turned Tuvai Underwood vessels village Vincennes voyage waves weather westward Wilkes found Wilkes knew Wilkes ordered Wilkes saw wind