ADMIRALTY INSTRUCTIONS. 3 



clirononieters — from tlience to Simon's Bay at the Cape of 

 Good Hope^ for a supply of water, and to land the £50,000 

 you have been ordered to convey to that colony ; then to 

 make the best of your way to the Mauritius, to land the 

 treasnre (£15,000) entrusted to your charge for that 

 island; and ha\ang so done, to proceed to King George's 

 Sound for the piu^pose of carrying its exact meridian dis- 

 tance to Sydney, where you will lose no time in preparing 

 for the execution of the important ser\dce entrusted to you. 



"The several objects of that ser-vice have been drawn up 

 imder oui' direction by our Hydi'ographer ; but notwith- 

 standing the order in which they are placed, we leave to 

 your own discretion the several periods of their perform- 

 ance, and likewise the times of your return to Sydney to 

 re-victual and refit — being satisfied that your zeal in 

 pushing forward the survey will never outstrip your atten- 

 tion to the health and comfort of vour crew. 



" You will take the Bramble and her tender, the Castle- 

 reagh, mider your orders, and employ them in those places 

 which require vessels of a lighter draft of water than the 

 Rattlesnake. They are to be attached as tenders to the 

 Rattlesnake, and to be manned from that ship ; and such 

 of the present crew of the Bramble as may have served five 

 years continuously, and volunteer to remain on the sui'vey- 

 ing service in Australia, are to be entered in the Rattle- 

 snake under the pro^dsions of the Act of Parliament. The 

 books of the Bramble are to be closed, and she is to be 

 considered as no longer in commission ; and you are hereby 

 authorized, after being joined by her and by the Castle- 

 reagh, to enter ten supernumerary seamen for wages and 

 victuals in the Rattlesnake, (making her total complement 

 190,) to enable you eff'ectively to man the said two tenders. 



" In stretching off from the Barrier Reefs to the east- 

 ward, in order to explore the safety of the sea intervening 



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