INSTRUCTIONS. 19 



as you may be able to make ; on which duty 

 you will be assisted by Lieutenant Beechey, 

 whose skill in drawing is represented to be so 

 considerable, as to supersede the necessity of 

 appointing a professional draughtsman. 



You are to make use of every means in your 

 power to collect and preserve such specimens 

 of the animal, mineral, and vegetable kingdoms 

 as you can conveniently stow on board the ships ; 

 and of the larger animals you are to cause 

 accurate drawings to be made, to accompany 

 and elucidate the descriptions of them. In this, 

 as well as in every other part of your scientific 

 duty, we trust that you will receive material 

 assistance from Mr. Fisher. 



You are to use your best endeavours, and give 

 instructions to the same effect to Lieutenant 

 Franklin, to keep the two vessels constantly 

 together, and prevent their separation : if, how- 

 ever, they should separate you are to appoint 

 Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, as the first 

 rendezvous ; and, after that, Magdalena Bay, in 

 Spitzbergen, beyond which, as nothing is known, 

 no other rendezvous can be appointed ; and, in 

 the event of any irreparable accident happening 

 to either of the ships, you are to cause the officers 

 and crew of the disabled ship to be removed 

 into the other, and with her singly to proceed 



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