558 COPIES OF ORDERS. 
In performing the above orders you will act as you may consider 
best for their most effectual execution, keeping in mind that the 
most desirable part is the survey of the Magdalen Channel. 
From our experience, last year, of the weather during the 
months of April and May, I am in hopes of your being able to 
work during those months, with success; but should you meet 
with bad weather, you will be most careful in not exposing your 
people unnecessarily to the severity of the climate. 
Upon detaching the Adelaide you will appoint Lieutenant Sky- 
ring to the superintendence of the service upon which she is sent, 
giving Lieutenant Graves instructions to that effect accordingly. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) PuiLurp Parker Kine, 
Commander and Senior Officer. 
His Majesty's surveying sloop Beagle, Port Famine. 
Sir ; April 19, 1829. 
In obedience to the orders I have received from Commander 
Phillip Parker King, senior officer of the Expedition for the survey 
of a part of South America, it is my direction that you proceed 
immediately, in the Adelaide schooner, to survey as much of the 
Magdalen Channel and the Strait or Channel of Santa Barbara as 
you find practicable at this season of the year. 
If, in the execution of this service, you should find the season 
too much advanced to proceed without much risk to the vessel, or 
exposing yourself and the men to much bad weather, you will 
give up the design, and hasten to Port Gallant. 
Should the Beagle not be in Port Gallant at your return, and 
no letter left for you in a bottle, you will wait there one week, 
and then return to Port Famine. At all events, you will endea- 
vour to rejoin the Beagle before the first week in June has ended. 
i I have, &c. 
(Signed) Rogerr Frrz-Roy, 
To Lieut. Wm. Geo. Skyring, Commander. 
fis Majesty’s sloop Beagle. 
