... added to its assets the Arabia, the Persia, the China, the Scotia, the Java, and the Russia, allships of top speed and, after the Great Eastern, the biggest ever to plow the seas. So in 1867 this ... amid a chorusof curses!However, the weather held good. Our voyage was proceeding under the most favorable conditions. By then it was the bad season in thesesouthernmost regions, because July ... for the southeast and leave the northerly regions of the Pacific decisively behind. By then the frigate lay in latitude 31 degrees 15' north and longitude136 degrees 42' east. The...