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2d. Lieutenant Craven will have all the sails, boats, rigging, and 
equipments of every description, overhauled and repaired. 
3d. The comfort and health of the crew will claim his particular 
attention, the regularity of their meals, and the avoiding unnecessary 
exposure to the cold, &c. 
4th. The baking of bread, it is desirable should be carried into 
operation, in order that as small a quantity of ship's bread should be 
used as possible. For this purpose, the oven is to be erected on the 
gun-deck, and which it is anticipated by constant use will be suffi- 
cient for this purpose ; if, however, from any defect, it should prove 
otherwise, recourse must be had to serving out flour in lieu of ship's 
bread. 
5th. Every opportunity must be taken advantage of to supply the 
crew with fish, wild celery, &c, and a proportion suffered to visit the 
shore when the work and weather will permit, who must return in 
proper season, (early in the afternoon, by supper time,) on board. 
6th. The sheet cables will be kept constantly bent, and an anchor- 
watch duly observed, night and day ; the three passed midshipmen 
and Mr. North, will keep the watches regularly; and the deck is 
never to be left without one of them, and a midshipman. 
7th. When his duties will permit, he will employ his time, and 
that of the crew, in dredging and fishing, and all specimens will be 
carefully preserved, and drawings made of them. 
8th. He will give all the assistance and afford every facility in his 
power, to aid the duties confided to Lieutenants Carr, and Alden. 
Lieutenant Carr will attend to the astronomical and other observa- 
tions (including tides) on shore, in which he will be assisted by Dr. 
Fox and Chaplain Elliott, so far as the former's duties will permit for 
this purpose. The observatory-house is to be set up on shore, and 
other arrangements made suitable for the accommodations of them 
and ten men, with a boat : this position will be in what is called Forge 
Cove, on the weather side, near the anchorage of this ship. 
Lieutenant Alden is charged with the survey and examination of 
the northern side of Hermit Islands, and the passages between them 
and Terra del Fuego, including Goree Road, and the two small 
islands between the two. All kelp that he may discover is to be 
examined ; also the anchorage under Lenox and New Islands ; and 
to make a careful examination of all other places that may seem to 
offer security for vessels from the prevailing winds ; making notes 
and taking bearings that may serve for directions for vessels seeking 
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