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barrel that you coiild manufacture or spare,) containing an account of 

 the date, position, etc. On your reaching England, you will call on 

 every person, in both vessels, to deliver up their logs, journals, charts, 

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

 them in due time. 



23. With respect to your search proving fruitless, and your finally 

 quitting the Polar Seas, as well as your securing your winter quarters 

 towards the close of any one season, we cannot too strongly impress 

 upon you the necessity of the utmost precaution and care being exer- 

 cised in withdrawing in time, so as in no case to hazard the safety of 

 the ships, and the lives of those entrusted to your care, by your being 

 shut up in a position which might render a failure of provisions 

 possible. 



We feel it unnecessary to give you more detailed instructions, which 

 might possibly embarrass you in a service of this description ; and we 

 have therefore only to repeat our perfect reliance on your judgment and 

 resolution, both in doing all that is possible to relieve the missing ships, 

 and in withdrawing in time, when you come to the painful conclusion 

 that yoiu- efforts are unavailing. 



24. You will bear in mind that the object of the Expedition is to 

 obtain intelligence, and to render assistance to Sir John Franklin and 

 his companions, and not for the purposes of geographical or scientific 

 research; and we conclude these Orders with an earnest hope that 

 Providence may crown your efforts with success, and that they may be 

 the means of dispelling the gloom and uncertainty which now prevail 

 respecting the missing Expedition. 



Given under our hands this 15th day of January, 1850, 



(Signed) F. T. BARING. 



J. W. D. DUNDAS. 

 By Command of their Lordships, 



(Signed) J. PARKER. 



To RICHARD COLLINSON, Esq., C.B., 

 Captain of Her Majesty's Ship Enterprise, 

 at Devonport. 



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