Challenger (Ship : 1872-1876)
On the first day of April, 1835, His Majesty’s ship Challenger sailed from Rio Janeiro for the Pacific, with orders to touch at the port of Concepçion in our way to Valparaiso, at which place we hoped either to find the commodore commanding on the western coasts of South Ameri...
On the first day of April, 1835, His Majesty’s ship Challenger sailed from Rio Janeiro for the Pacific, with orders to touch at the port of Concepçion in our way to Valparaiso,...
2. Part 2Captain Seymour had hastily written a letter to His Majesty’s consul at Concepçion, from which place we hoped we were not very distant, of which the assistant surgeon, who spoke...
3. Part 3A tent was erected outside our line of camp for our new force of Chilinos; who zealously commenced the important service of establishing a line of scouts, in the direction of th...
4. Part 4“We attempted to communicate with the Indians (who by this time were collecting on the beach, and who evidently seemed inclined to be friendly, and disposed to render assistance...
5. Part 5About half-past 3 P.M., in one of these temporary wooden houses, we found H. W. Rouse, Esq., His Majesty’s Consul; and I need not say how happy we were to introduce ourselves to...
6. Part 6_Sunday, June 7._--Fresh breezes, and cloudy from the southward. It had been our intention this day to have abandoned our Molquilla encampment; but the failure of the means of c...
7. Part 7_June 20._--Dark and cloudy weather, with showers of rain. Employed the ship’s company in making a road to the pier, laying on stones, and ditching it on each side. Though our s...
8. Part 8An old English inhabitant of the city of Concepçion described the earthquake as having taken place at a time when he was in the street fronting his house, overlooking the labour...
9. Part 9I have received your esteemed note of yesterday’s date, wherein you ask for a party of troops sufficient to guard the hull and remaining property of His Britannic Majesty’s ship...