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Correspondence and data from the Carnegie, like many ships on long voyages, was sometimes communicated by this method. Vessels bound in the opposite direction would retrieve the flag-topped barrel and forward it to the post office in the nearest port, after which its contents would be dispatched to their destination on the next available ship.
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