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" officers and petty officers, the log-books and journals they 

 " may have kept, and to seal them up for our inspection; and 

 " enjoining them, and the whole crew, not to divulge where 

 " they have been, until they shall have permission so to do : 

 " and you are to direct Captain Clerke to do the same, with 

 " respect to the officers, petty officers, and crew of the Dis- 

 " covery. 



" If any accident should happen to the Resolution in the 

 " course of the voyage, so as to disable her from proceeding 

 " any farther, you are, in such case, to remove yourself and 

 " her crew into the Discovery, and to prosecute your voyage 

 " in her ; her commander being hereby strictly required to 

 " receive you on board, and to obey your orders, the same, 

 M in every respect, as when you were actually on board the 

 * Resolution : and, in case of your inability, by sickness or 

 " otherwise, to carry these instructions into execution, you 

 " are to be careful to leave them with the next officer in 

 " command, who is hereby required to execute them in the 

 " best manner he can. 



" Given under our bauds the 6th day of July, 1 7763 



" Sandwich. 

 " C. Spencer. 

 c * H. Palliser. 

 l< By command of their Lordships, 



" Ph. Stephens." 



Besides ordering Captain Cook to sail on this im- 

 portant voyage, government, in earnest about the 

 object of it, adopted a measure, which, while it could 

 not but have a powerful operation on the crews of 

 the Resolution and Discovery, by adding the motives 

 of interest, to the obligations of duty ; at the same 

 time encouraged all his Majesty's subjects to engage 

 in attempts toward the proposed discovery. By the 

 act of parliament, passed in 1745 # , a reward of 



* See the Statutes at Large, 18 George II. chap. 17. 



