12 INSTRUCTIONS. 



veyed to London ; and from thence you will 

 proceed to the Sandwich Islands, or New Albion, 

 or such other place in the Pacific Ocean as 

 you may think proper, to refit and refresh your 

 crews ; and, if during your stay at such place 

 a safe opportunity should occur of sending these 

 papers to England, you should send duplicates 

 by that conveyance. 



If the circumstances of your passage should 

 be such as to encourage your attempting to 

 return by the same course, you may winter 

 at the Sandwich Islands, New Albion, or any 

 other proper place, and early in next spring 

 may proceed direct for Behring's Strait, and 

 use your endeavours to repass the same ; and, 

 should you succeed in this attempt, you are 

 to proceed, if possible, to the eastward, keeping 

 in sight and approaching the coast of America 

 whenever the position of the ice will permit 

 you so to do, in order that you may be en- 

 abled to ascertain the latitudes and longitudes 

 of some of the most remarkable headlands or 

 inlets that may occur, taking every possible 

 precaution, however, against being beset by the 

 ice, and thus being compelled to winter on that 

 coast. 



Before, however, you determine on returning 

 by the same way, you will maturely consider 



