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every operation that you undertake. Each of them has likewise been 

 supplied wath numerous instruments for the purpose of making geo- 

 graphic, hvdrographic, magnetic, and atmospheric observations in those 

 northern and rarely visited regions of the globe ; and we annex hereto 

 a copy of the instructions given to Sir J. Franklin, in order that you 

 may pursue a similar course ; and though we estimate any such obser- 

 vations as of inferior importance to the one leading object of the Ex- 

 pedition, you will, nevertheless, omit no opportunity of rendering it as 

 contributive to scientific acquisition as to the performance of the great 

 duties of national humanity. In carrying out the above orders, you 

 will avail yourself of every practical occasion of acquainting our Secre- 

 tary with every step of your progress, as well with your future inten- 

 tions ; and on your reaching England you will call on every person in 

 both vessels to deliver up to you all their logs, journals, charts, and 

 drawings, but which, they may be informed, shall be returned to them 

 in due time. 



Given under our hands this 9th day of May, 1848, 



(Signed) AUCKLAND, 



J. W. D. DUNDAS. 

 To SIR JAS. C. Koss, 



Captain of Her Majesty's Ship Enterprise, 

 Greenhithe. 



By Command of their Lordships, 



(Signed) H. G. WARD. 



No. VII. 

 Sailing Orders for Captain Collinson, of H, M.S. Enterprise. 



By the Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral 

 of the United Kingdom of Gh-eat Britain and Ireland. 



1 . Whereas the efforts that have been made during the last two years 

 to relieve the ' Erebus' and ' Terror' have failed, and all access to the 

 Parry Islands has been prevented by the accumulation of ice in the 

 upper part of Barrow Straits ; and whereas it is possible that the same 

 severity of weather may not prevail at the same time in both the eastern 

 and western entrances to the Arctic Sea, we have now determined, in 

 a matter of such moment, to send an Expedition into the Polar Sea 

 from the westward; and having a full confidence in your zeal and skill, 



