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spent the next two and a half years largely ferrying people and cargo between Apia and Pago Pago, often carrying as many as 50 – or more – Samoan natives each trip. Twice during this period, during the winter of 1899–1900 and the winter of 1900–1901, the ship made a voyage from Samoan waters to
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in mid-July, the collier headed home on 3 August and arrived back at
Norfolk where she immediately began loading coal and ammunition to supply the European Squadron. The collier again sailed for the Mediterranean on 14 October, arrived at Gibraltar on 2 November, and soon moved on to
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