 "Capricieuse" circumnavigated the globe during this period and cruised for several months along the China Coast, giving Courbet his first experience of the seas in which, thirty years later, he would win fame.After his return to France he was posted to the brick "Olivier", attached to the Levant naval division.In December 1855, at Smyrna, he intervened to quell a mutiny aboard the "Messageries impériales" packet "Tancrède", and was subsequently commended for his conduct by the navy ministry.