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pedition, and the safe return of yourself and your 

 companions, 



I am, very respectfully, 



(Signed) J. K. PAULDINO. 

 To LIEUTENANT CHARLES WILKES, 



Commanding the exploring and surveying 



expedition, &c. 

 P. S. The accompanying printed list of English 



words, drawn up by Mr. Gallatin, and received 

 from the war department since these instructions 

 were prepared, are intended for Indian vocabu- 

 laries, which can be filled up as circumstances 

 permit, taking care that the same words be used in 

 all of them. 



(Signed) J. K. PAULDINO. 



B. 



MEMORANDUM BY ADMIRAL KRUSENSTERN . 



I. I HAVE pointed out, in the supplementary 

 volume of my Hydrographical Memoirs, (pages 

 19, 96, and 113,) several islands, the existence of 

 which does not appear to be subject to any doubt, 

 but of which the position is not determined with 

 the best precision. It is much to be wished that all 

 such islands were to be visited, and their position 

 verified. With respect to the islands of rather 

 doubtful existence, the names of which I have 

 given, (pages 156165, supplement,) there is cer- 

 tainly no other method of ascertaining their ex- 

 istence than to search for them, and to determine, 

 with the greatest precision, the latitudes and longi- 

 tudes of such as are found. A great number of 

 these imaginary islands will then, of course, vanish 

 from the charts. 



II. Captain Bligh discovered, in the year 1789, 

 to the northward of the New Hebrides, a group of 

 islands, which he named Banks's Islands ; and 

 Captain Wilson, another cluster of islands, to the 

 northward of the Santa Cruz Islands, named by 

 him Duff's Group. Neither these nor the Banks's 

 Islands have been since seen, it would be well to 

 make a new survey of them. 



III. Islands of Santa Cruz. In my memoir, 

 belonging to the chart of these islands, I have dis- 

 cussed the situation of Carteret's Swallow Island, 

 and expressed my belief that the islands seen by 

 Captain Wilson in 1 797 are the same as Swallow 

 Island. Captain Freycinet is of the same opinion, 

 and, by a new survey of Wilson's Island, confirmed 

 this hypothesis. There remains, then, no doubt 

 that Byron's Swallow Island does not exist ; but, 

 &s it still continues to be delineated on some of the 

 latest charts, it would be well that its non-existence 

 should be equally proved by the American expedi- 

 tion. 



IV. The Solomon Islands. These islands have 

 partly been visited by D'Urville and Shortland, 

 partly by D'Entrecasteaux ; and several English 

 ships have at different times sailed through them ; 

 but a complete survey of all the islands composing 

 this great archipelago is still wanting. It is indeed 

 very singular that, of all the navigators who have 

 lately visited the Pacific Ocean, none have ever 

 attempted any thing like a systematic survey of 

 these islands, with the exception of D'Entrecasteaux, 

 who, at least, sailed along the southern islands, 

 from east to west, and thus greatly improved the 



The asterisk after the number of some of these articles, 

 denotes that the islands, &c., have been examined by the 

 expedition. 



hydrography of them. I have published, in the 

 year 1827, a chart of these islands (Carte Sys- 

 te'matique de 1'Archipel des lies Salomon). Having 

 collected all the materials that were to be had at 

 that time, many of them in apparent contradiction 

 to each other, I endeavoured to reconcile them, 

 and to delineate the islands belonging to this archi- 

 pelago, to the best of my judgment. (An account 

 of my proceedings will be found in the memoir 

 accompanying my chart.) By the first survey of 

 these islands, it will be seen whether some of my 

 combinations have been well founded or not. The 

 Solomon Islands being the greatest archipelago in 

 the Pacific Ocean, and the least known, deserve, 

 no doubt, to be as completely surveyed as the 

 Society, Friendly, or other groups. Although ten 

 years have elapsed since my chart was published, 

 nothing has been done since that time for the 

 hydrography of these islands, to enable me to im- 

 prove the second edition of that chart, -(1836,) 

 except in the situation of a group of islands, dis- 

 covered lately, to the northward of the Solomon 

 Islands. 



V. New Caledonia. A dangerous reef has lately 

 been discovered by the ship Petrie to the north- 

 ward of New Caledonia ; the precise position of 

 this danger ought to be determined. 



VI. Loyalty Islands. Captain D'Urville has 

 been the first to survey the Loyalty Islands ; but 

 having sailed only along the northern side of them, 

 it is to be wished that the southern shore might 

 also be surveyed. 



VII.* The Feejee Islands Captain D'Urville 

 has done a great deal to give us a more correct 

 chart of these islands, having surveyed a great 

 part of them; but still he has left unexplored 

 many islands belonging to this archipelago. In 

 my supplementary memoir to the chart of these 

 islands, I have endeavoured to combine Captain 

 D'Urville's survey with such surveys as had been 

 made previous to his voyage ; and have con- 

 structed, according to all the data that have come to 

 my knowledge, a new chart of the Feejee Islands 

 (named by Captain D'Urville, Viti Islands). Of 

 course the chart cannot be very correct, but it may 

 perhaps serve till a new complete survey is made 

 of them. 



VIII. New Ireland. It is astonishing that 

 nearly two centuries have elapsed without the 

 islands situated to the north of New Ireland 

 first seen by Tasman, and since by Dampier and 

 Bougainville having been examined, so that we 

 know as little of them as was known one hundred 



