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WITH THE BATTLE FLEET


Courtesy of Collier's Weekly
In the Straits of Magellan

WITH
THE BATTLE FLEET

CRUISE OF THE SIXTEEN BATTLESHIPS OF THE
UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET FROM HAMPTON
ROADS TO THE GOLDEN GATE

DECEMBER, 1907-MAY, 1908

BY

FRANKLIN MATTHEWS

ILLUSTRATED BY

HENRY REUTERDAHL
(Courtesy of Collier's Weekly)

1909
B. W. HUEBSCH
NEW YORK

Copyright 1909
by B. W. HUEBSCH

1st Printing, October, 1908
2d Printing, December, 1908
3d Printing, February, 1909


TO
REAR ADMIRAL RICHARD WAINWRIGHT, U.S.N.,
(Captain of the U.S.S. Louisiana on the Atlantic Fleet'sCruise to the Pacific)

AN ABLE OFFICER AND
A GENTLEMAN


CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.From Hampton Roads to Trinidad1
II.Christmas With the Fleet25
III.Trinidad to Rio de Janeiro47
IV.Neptune Ahoy!64
V.Brazil's Enthusiastic Welcome86
VI.National Salutes at Sea114
VII.Punta Arenas, the World's Jumping-off Place135
VIII.Through Magellan Strait164
IX.In and Out of Valparaiso Harbor182
X.Peru's Warm-hearted Greeting198
XI.Target Shooting at Magdalena Bay
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