VOYAGE COMMENCED. 29 



Trent, 38 Men. 



Lieutenant and Commander John Franklin. 



Lieutenant Frederick W. Beechey. 



Purser. William Barrett. 



Admiralty Mates. Andrew Reid. George Back. 



Assistant Surgeon. Alexander Gilfillan. 



Clerk. William Cotsell. 



Greenland Master. George Fife. 



Mate. George Kirby. 



Carpenter. James Bovvden. 



28 Seamen and Marines. 



Two years' provisions, and numerous stores, in 

 addition to those usually supplied to men of 

 war, were embarked in each ship, and the expe- 

 dition being complete in its equipment, and 

 having dropped down to Galleon's Reach, Captain 

 Buchan received his instructions, which are so 

 ably drawn up to meet every contingency, and 

 so additionally interesting as furnishing an in- 

 sight into the opinions, at that time, entertained 

 by Government regarding the long-sought north- 

 west passage to the Pacific, that I have been 

 induced to insert them at full length, notwith- 

 standing they have, for the most part, been pub- 

 lished in Captain Ross's account of his voyage to 

 Baffin's Bay. 



On the 25th April the expedition proceeded 

 down the river, and arrived at Lerwick, in the 

 Shetland Islands, on the 1st May. 



