PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. 15 



guided by your own judgment. The first ob- 

 ject will be to reach Cape Garry, where his 

 Majesty's late ship Fury was wrecked; on the 

 remaining stores of which it is known that 

 Captain Ross in some measure relied : but in 

 making for this, whether by the east or west, 

 you must be governed by the position of the 

 mouth of the river, and other local circum- 

 stances, as you progressively ascertain them. 



" While passing along the coast, you are to 

 keep a vigilant look-out upon the shore for any 

 signal or indication of the party of which you 

 are in search (particularly at the entrance of 

 the Hecla and Fury Strait, should you take the 

 eastern passage) ; and in the event of your 

 meeting them, previous to your arrival at Cape 

 Garry, you are to offer to return immediately, 

 and bring them with you to the Hudson's Bay 

 settlements. Or should you find any indication 

 of their having been on any part of the coast 

 before your arrival, you are to search minutely 

 for some memorial which may lead to the dis- 

 covery of their intentions ; and to proceed, in 

 the event of success, in whatever practicable 

 direction may seem best calculated to lead you 

 to them. 



11 Devoting the summer, then, to the interest- 

 ing search in contemplation, it is unnecessary to 

 recommend to you to make it as effectual as 



