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Show FLEET LEAVES CAUAO FOR MAGDALEN A M Start on Longest Lap of Long Voyage, Being Duo at Next Stopping Place on March 14. Callao. Tho fleet of Amorlcan battleships loft tho harbor on Saturday. Satur-day. Tho next stopping placo Is Magdalcna Mag-dalcna bay, whero, according to tho schedule, tho vcssols will arrlvo on March 14. Tho dlstanco from Callao to Magdalcnu bay Is 3,012 nautical miles. Tho dates for tho doparture from Magdalcna bay nnd tlio nrrlval at San Francisco havo not been dcfmltely determined, as thoso depend upon tho completion of targot practlco at Magdalcna bay, which will probably occupy thirty days. This Is tho longest lap of tho long voyage, and tiniest) nows of tlio pass-ago pass-ago of tho warships Is brought ashore by somb passing steamer, tho vessels probably will not bo heard from again until thoy approach Magdnlonn bay. Tho fleet left Hampton Roads December Decem-ber 1C and made Its first stop In South America at Trinidad, December 23. Five days' sailing from Callao will bring Panama abeam and tho vessels will then bo practically clear of South America. Counting tho long stops mado at Trinidad. Rio, Punta Arenas and Callao, thoy havo mado tho circuit of South America In approximately ap-proximately Boventy-thrco days. |