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being usually the most practicable, will afford better advantages for sighting and 
communicating with any party sent out by Lieut. Greely. To make communi- 
cation surer, your party must be able to readily send and receive messages by 
flag or heliograph and other means, and the necessary articles should be kept in 
readiness for instant use when communication is possible. 
Should the vessel be unable to get through the ice to Lady Franklin Bay or to 
reach the west coast at points above Cape Sabine, it will be of great importance that 
Lieut. Greely should know of the efforts being made to relieve him, and of the 
plans for doing so. You will endeavor, therefore, to convey such intelligence, 
and omit no means of informing him or any of his party of the situation. Should 
any landings be made at prominent points on either coast during the efforts to 
get through the ice, you will leave a short record of the facts, with such informa- 
tion as it is desirable to convey, so deposited and marked as to render it discov- 
erable by parties traveling southward. If such landings be made at points where 
caches of provisions are located, you will, if possible, examine them, and replace 
any damaged articles of food, leaving of course a record of your action. 
If it should become clearly apparent that the vessel cannot be pushed through,, 
you will retreat from your advanced position and land your party and stores at 
or near Lifeboat Cove, discharge the relief vessel with orders to return to St. 
Johns, N. F., and prepare for remaining with your party until relieved next year. 
As soon as possible after landing, or in case your vessel becomes unavoidably 
frozen up in the ice pack, you will endeavor to communicate with Lieut. Greely 
by taking personal charge of a party of the most experienced and hardy men 
equipped for sledging, carrying such stores as practicable to Cape Sabine, whence 
a smaller party, more lightly equipped, still headed by yourself, will push as far 
north as possible, or until Lieut. Greely's party is met. In this and other mat- 
ters you will follow closely the instructions of Lieut. Greely dated August 17, 
1 88 1, a printed copy of which is furnished you herewith. 
The men not employed in the expeditions will lose no time in preparing the 
house for the whole party and in securing the stores preparatory to the arrival 
of Lieut. Greely. 
You will be furnished with two observers and an outfit of scientific apparatus 
and will be guided in their use by instructions herewith. The character and 
amount of the meteorological and other scientific work to be accomplished by 
your party is enumerated in inclosed memoranda. 
In addition to the medical officer, enlisted men, and Mr. Beebe, taken from 
this city, you will employ three hardy ice men at St. Johns, who have been, 
already selected by the United States Consul there under my directions, and in 
Greenland such Esquimaux as you may require. 
It is important that a careful and complete record of events should be made, 
and in case your party does not return this year that a full report be sent by the 
vessel on her return to St. Johns. Each member of your party will be required 
to keep a private diary, which will be open to the inspection of the Chief Signal 
Officer only in case it should be necessary. 
