IG ADMIRALTY INSTRUCTIONS. 



sion, you will make the best of your way to Spithead, 

 and report your arrival to our Secretary. 



** Directions will be forwarded to the command- 

 ers-in-chief at the Cape of Good Hope and in the 

 East Indies, and to the governors or lieutenant- 

 governors of the several settlements at which you 

 have been ordered to call, to assist and further 

 your enterprise as far as their means will admit : 

 and you will lose no opportunity, at those several 

 places, of informing our Secretary of the general 

 outline of your proceedings, and of transmitting 

 traces of the surveys which you may have effected, 

 together with copies of your tide and other obser- 

 vations. You will likewise, by every safe oppor- 

 tunity, communicate to our Hydrographer detailed 

 accounts of all your proceedings which relate to 

 the surveys ; and you will strictly comply with the 

 enclosed instructions, which have been drawn up 

 by him under our directions, as well as all those 

 which he may, from time to time, forward by our 

 command. 



" Given under our hands, the 8th of June, 1837. 



" Signed, 



" Chas. Adam. 



" Geo. Elliott. 



"To J.C. WlCKHAM,Esq. 



" Commander of His Majesty's surveying 

 vessel ' Beagle,' at Woolwich. 



" By command of their Lordships. 

 " Signed, 



" John Barrow." 



