OFFICIAI. INSTRUCTIONS. V 



It will be exceedingly desirable that, in the course of 

 this journey, you should, not only yourself, but also 

 those who accompany you, collect all such observations 

 on the tides, currents, state of the ice, and other parti- 

 culars, as may be useful to geography, and the naviga- 

 tion of the coast along which you are about to proceed, 

 as well as to science in general ; and you ai'e also to col- 

 lect as many specimens of natural history, in its various 

 departments, as you shall have the means of carrying 

 along with you ; and to make accurate drawings of such 

 objects as may not, from their magnitude, be capable of 

 being brought away. 



You are to use every means in your power for pro- 

 tecting the people engaged with you in this enterprise, 

 against any hostility of such natives as you may fall in 

 with, and be careful not unnecessarily to expose them to 

 the severity of the weather, using such means as are 

 within your reach for preserving their health, during the 

 continuance of the land journey. And having returned 

 from the Expedition, and rejoined His Majesty''s ship 

 Griper, you are then to consider yourself under the 

 orders of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and 

 govern your further proceedings accordingly. I trans- 

 mit for your further information, Extracts of the In- 



