THE 



LAST OF THE ARCTIC VOYAGES, 



"UNDER THE COMMAND OF 



CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD BELCHER, C.B. 



PRELIMINARY. 



Admiralty Instructions. List of Officers. The ' North Star.' Boat 

 Department . Supplies. Instruments. Azimuth Tables. Library 

 and Printing Press. Ships Undocked. Leave Woolwich. Visited 

 by the Admiralty. Quit the Nore. 



HER Majesty's Government having deemed it necessary 

 to prosecute the further search for the 'Erebus' and 

 ' Terror,' which left England in the month of May, 1845, 

 as well as for any traces of Sir John Franklin or his fol- 

 lowers, my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty were 

 pleased to entrust me with the command of the Expedi- 

 tion, the entire objects of which w r ill be nearly apparent 

 from the following Instructions : 



ORDERS. No. I. 



By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Ad- 

 miral of tfie United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 etc. etc. 



1. Having appointed you to the command of the Expedition (to 

 consist of the ships named in the margin*) preparing for the further 



* Assistance, Resolute, Pioneer, Intrepid, North Star. 

 VOL. I. B 



