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Clearly someone was not pleased with the current practice!

At sea, making passage for Valparaiso, Chile.
25 September.

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Lieut. Harber, U.S.N. was suspended while officer of the deck, by the Comd'g Officer for unofficer-like, undignified, + improper conduct, by the striking one of the watch with deck trumpet, and also was relieved by the Ex Officer who kept the remainder of the watch by my order.

Signed: L. A. Kimberly, Capt.

I suspect that this is what they were referring to.

7 November
Callao, Peru.

The following order was issued by the Comd'g Officer: No more than 300 gallons of water per day will be used until further orders.

For the next couple of days at least, they're distilling about 225 gallons per watch. They stopped distilling at 8 PM on the 10^th.

On December 17th, we came into Valparaiso Harbor and exchanged numbers with USS Adams. We have mainly seen the USS Onward, a stores ship that's always in Callao, (I think it's Callao), and the USS Richmond and Pensacola. They used to be the flag vessels for the South Pacific Station. We're the flag vessel now, but I don't now for how long.

Anyway, here's the USS Adams.

The voyage for 1877 has been completed. You can see a plot of the voyage here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth. There were a few mentions of people.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

• 8754 records for DirT
• 8682 records for Kts
• 8232 records for Baro
• 8221 records for Attd
• 8743 records for Dry
• 8723 records for Wet
• 1118 records for Water
• 8749 records for Weather
• 8519 records for Clouds
• 8647 records for Clear

There were 78388 weather records for Omaha in 1877.
Omaha travelled a total of 6162 miles.