560 COPIES OF ORDERS. 
When to the northward of Cape Tamar, and before reaching as 
far north as Oracion Bay, or the latitude of 52° 6’, should you 
notice an opening to the eastward, with a current or stream of tide 
setting through it, and an appearance of its joining another body of 
water, of considerable extent, you will endeavour to ascertain 
whether it communicates with the Skyring Water, provided that 
in so doing you do not turn from your chief object more than a 
few days. 
In the execution of the above orders you will act as you may 
consider best for the service of his Majesty; and if, at any time 
before its completion, you find your provisions getting short, the 
climate too severe, or yourself, or those under your orders, in bad 
health, you will immediately make the best of your way to Childe. 
You will endeavour to be at San Carlos, in the island of Childe, 
before the 20th of September, and will let nothing that can be 
avoided detain you beyond that time. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) Rovert Frrz-Roy, 
To Lieutenant Wm. Geo. Skyring, Commander. 
His Majesty’s sloop Beagle. 
By Phillip Parker King, Esq., Commander of His Majesty’s sur- 
veying vessel Adventure, and Senior Officer of an Expedition 
for the survey of a part of South America. 
As soon as you shall have completed the rates of your chrono- 
meters and be otherwise ready, it is my direction that you proceed 
to sea in His Majesty’s sloop under your command, to survey the 
sea-coast of Tierra del Fuego, from Cape Pillar to the east entrance 
of the Strait of Magellan, in the progressive examination of which 
you will be guided by the state of the weather, and other circum- 
stances, keeping in view that the most interesting part of the 
coast is that portion between Christmas Sound and the Strait Le 
Maire, particularly the openings of New Year Sound and Nassau 
Bay, and the openings to the eastward of the latter as far as New 
Island ; as there is reason to believe that there is a considerable 
body of water to the eastward of the termination of Admiralty 
