A U.S. Navy lieutenant"s journal of the three-year (1881-1884) cruise of this U.S. Navy flagship throughout the South Atlantic, past Cape Horn, and on to the Indian Ocean, filled with glimpses of daily life and operations aboard ship as well as descriptions of sites in South America, Africa, and Madagascar "with details of the peculiar customs and industries of their inhabitants." Reprint edition. 2006: 341 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Scholar"s Bookshelf)