besides their four days in sweden, the americans visited germany — including the port of kiel in the king of prussia's newly acquired province of schleswig-holstein-france, portugal, and spain before they transited the strait of gibraltar two days before christmas. they welcomed in the new year, 1867, at málaga, spain, and spent the next four and one-half months visiting the traditionally popular ports of call in the mediterranean before departing gibraltar on 15 may and heading home, via the canary islands, the cape verdes, barbados, and the bahamas. following a week at nassau, they began the final passage of the cruise on 17 july and moored in the philadelphia navy yard on the 22nd. soon thereafter, "augusta" was laid up in the new york navy yard and remained there until sold at auction on 2 december 1868 to "commodore" cornelius kingsland garrison.