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  <dc:title>Letter from Francis Beaufort, Admiralty to Edward Sabine</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Beaufort refers to a ‘he’ [possibly Captain Richard Collinson or Commander Robert J McClure] and informs Sabine that ‘he’ is to sail from Woolwich on Wednesday. Beaufort describes the journey to Behring Strait, going from Magellan Strait, Wellington Channel, Valparaíso and the Sandwich Islands [colonial name now Hawaiian Islands, possibly referring to the McClure Arctic expedition].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>7 January [1850]</dc:date>
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