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remained there undergoing minor repairs. Many of the articles not disposed of at the exposition were then reloaded, as well as some
European goods intended for the American Centennial Exposition in 1876, and
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Expedition; she sailed from New York City 28 January, arriving in Caledonia Bay, off the
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