INSTRUCTIONS. xxv ii 
It is presumed you will reach the Navigator's Group some time in 
June, 1839. You will survey this group, and its harbours, with all 
due care and attention. If time will permit, it will be w T ell to visit 
the Society Islands, and examine Eimeo, which, it is stated, pos- 
sesses a convenient harbour. 
From the Navigator's Group, you will proceed to the Feejee 
Islands, which you will examine with particular attention, with the 
view to the selection of a safe harbour, easy of access, and in every 
respect adapted to the reception of vessels of the United States 
engaged in the whale-fishery, and the general commerce of these 
seas; it being the intention of the government to keep one of the 
squadron of the Pacific cruising near these islands in future. 
After selecting the island and harbour best adapted to the purposes 
in view, you will use your endeavours to make such arrangements 
as will insure a supply of fruits, vegetables, and fresh provisions, to 
vessels visiting it hereafter, teaching the natives the modes of culti- 
vation, and encouraging them to raise hogs in greater abundance. 
These objects will, it is presumed, occupy you until the latter end 
of October ; and when attained as far as may be possible, you will 
proceed to the port of Sydney, where adequate supplies may be 
obtained. From thence you will make a second attempt to penetrate 
within the Antarctic region, south of Van Diemen's Land, and as far 
west as longitude 45° E., or to Enderby's Land, making your ren- 
dezvous on your return at Kerguelen's Land, or the Isle of Desolation, 
as it is now usually denominated, and where you will probably arrive 
by the latter end of March, 1840. 
From the Isle of Desolation you will proceed to the Sandwich 
Islands, by such route as you may judge best, from the information 
you may acquire from such sources as fall in your way. 
A store-ship from the United States will meet you here, with a 
supply of provisions, in the month of April, 1840. 
Thence you will direct your course to the northwest coast of 
America, making such surveys and examinations, first of the territory 
of the United States on the sea-board, and of the Columbia river, and 
afterwards along the coast of Calefornia, with special reference to the 
Bay of St. Francisco, as you can accomplish by the month of October 
following your arrival. 
You will then proceed to the coast of Japan, taking in your route 
as many doubtful islands as possible ; and you have permission to 
