﻿2 feaniclin's expedition. 



Sound, and, passing through it, to push on to the 

 westward, in the latitude of 74J°, without loss of 

 time or stopping to examine any openings to the 

 northward^ until he reached the longitude of Cape 

 Walker, which is situated in about 98° west. He 

 was to use every effort to penetrate to the south- 

 ward and westward of that point, and to pursue as 

 direct a course for Beering's Straits as circum- 

 stances might permit. He was cautioned not to 

 attempt to pass by the western extremity of Mel- 

 ville Island, until he had ascertained that a perma- 

 nent barrier of ice or other obstacle closed the 

 prescribed route. In the event of not being able 

 to penetrate to the westward, he was to enter 

 Wellington Sound in his second summer. 



He was further directed to transmit accounts of 

 his proceedings to the Admiralty, by means of the 

 natives and the Hudson's Bay Company, should 

 opportunities offer; and also, after passing the 65th 

 meridian, to throw overboard daily a copper cylin- 

 der, containing a paper stating the ship's position. 

 It was also understood that he would cause piles 

 of stones or signal-posts to be erected on conspi- 

 cuous headlands at convenient times, though the 

 instructions do not contain a clause to that effect.* 



* The instructions are published at length in a parliamentary 

 Blue Book, and all known particulars respecting the expe- 

 dition have been communicated from time to time to the public 



