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Title: The cruise of Her Majesty's ship "Challenger" : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Spry, W. J. J. (William James Joseph), d. 1906 Burrows, C. Acton (Charles Acton), 1853-1948 (bookplate)
Subjects: Challenger (Ship) Voyages around the world
Publisher: Toronto : Belford Bros.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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th century, when England couldnot have disputed the possession of an inch of groundwith her for a week. England now wears the mantlePortugal in her blindness and bigotry let fall. Before we left Lisbon, his Majesty King Luiz I.,who is known to be very fond of natural history,&c, did us the honour to visit the ship, and remainedon board for some considerable time, showing thegreatest interest in the captures which had beenmade on the passage from England. Other matters were at the same time fully ex-plained by Captain Nares and Professor Thomson,sufficient to enable him to thoroughly comprehendthe object of the Expedition, also showing him eachdepartment in full working order. After luncheon,and previous to his departure, a group photographwas taken of his Majesty and the officers of theExpedition. We were detained here until the 12th by aheavy gale from the south-west. On its moderating,we steamed out of the Tagus, and the next daydredged in 470 fathoms off Setubal. The bottom was
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TRAWLING NEAR GIBRALTAR. 17 of the ordinary grey ooze of the Atlantic. The galehad blown over, and we experienced light easterly andnortherly winds, which enabled us to get a few suc-cessful hauls with the dredge, and soundings betweenthe coast in the neighbourhood of Lisbon and thedeep water to the south-west in the direction ofMadeira: the incline was found to slope gentlydown to 1475 fathoms, with a muddy bottom at31 miles distant from the shore. When a little to the south of Cape St. Vincent,it was proposed to try the common trawl, and onewith a 15-foot beam was lowered in 600 fathoms; itwent down all right, and, after being towed for somehours, was drawn in just .as easily as the dredge. There was no lack of living things, strange-look-ing fish with their eyes blown nearly out of theirhead by the expansion of the air in their air-blad-ders, while entangled amongst the meshes were manystarfish and delicate zoophytes shining with a vividphosphorescent light. On another occasion of

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