xxxviii INTRODUCTION. 



Pickerfgill, we fee, was not to attempt the difcovery of 

 the pafTage. He was diiedled to explore the coafts of 

 Baffin's Bay, with a view only to bring back, the fame 

 year, fome information, which might be an ufeful di- 

 redlion toward planning an intended voyage into that 

 bay the enfuing fummer, to try for the difcovery of a 

 paflage on that fide, with a view to co-operate with Captain 

 Cook, who, it was fuppofed (from the tenor of his inllruc- 

 tions) would be trying for this pafTage, about the fame time, 

 from the oppofite fide of America. 



Pickerfgill, obeying his ini1ru(5lions, at lead in this in- 

 ftance, did return that year ; but there were fufficient rea- 

 fons tor not fending him out again ; and the command of 

 the next expedition into Baffin's Bay was conferred on Lieu- 

 tenant Young ; whofe Inftrudions, having an immediate 

 connexion with our voyage, are here inferted. 



EXTRACT of INSTRUCTIONS to Lieutenant 

 Young, commanding the Lion armed VefTel, 

 dated 13th March 1777. 



Refolution. 

 Difco'very, 



TTT'HEREAS, in purftiance of the King's pleafure, ftgnified to us by the 

 '^ Earl of Sandwich, his Majefty' s floops named in the margin have been 

 Jent out under the command of Captain Cook, in order, during this and the 

 enfuing year, to attempt a difcovery of a Northern pafage, by fe a, from the 

 Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean ; and, for that purpofe, to run up as high as the 

 latitude of 6^° IScrth, where it is hoped he will be able to arrive in the month 

 of June next ; and there, and as much further to the Northward as in his 

 prudence he fljall think proper, very carefully to fearch for and explore fuch 

 rivers or inlets as may appeo/r to he of a confiderahle extent, and pointing to 

 Hudfons or Baffin's Bays, or the North Sea; and, Upon finding any paffage 



4 through. 



