440 APPENDIX. 



U. S. Ship Vincenncs, 



Mbua Bay, July 13th, 1840. 



Sir, 



On your arrival here, you will lose no time in repairing to the 

 anchorage under Rabe-rabe Point, about fourteen miles to windward 

 of this bay, where, if you should not find me after a stay of one day, 

 you will proceed to Levuka, Ovolau. 



I am, very respectfully, &c, 



Charles Wilkes, 



Commanding Exploring Expedition. 



Lieut. Com. C. Ringgold, 



U. S. Brig Porpoise. 



ORDERS. 



1st. Lieutenant Perry will rejoin the Peacock, and be em- 

 ployed with charts. 



2d. Doctor Fox and Passed Midshipman Eld will hold themselves 

 in readiness for service in the Flying-Fish. 



3d. The Flying-Fish will be ready for sea at twelve o'clock to- 

 morrow. 



4th. The first cutter and Leopard, of the Vincennes, and the first 

 cutter of the Peacock, will also be in readiness for service, at twelve 

 o'clock to-morrow, equipped for surveying duty, with provisions for 

 ten days for full crews. Lieutenant Alden will have charge of the 

 first cutter of this ship, with Midshipman Henry; Lieutenant Em- 

 mons, the Peacock's first cutter; and Lieutenant Underwood, the 

 Leopard. 



Charles Wilkes, 



Commanding Exploring Expedition. 

 U. S, Ship Vincennes, 



Mbua Bay, July 14, 1840. 



XIII. 



U. S. Ship Vincennes, July 14th, 1840. 



Sir, 



Having been fully satisfied that the chiefs brought from Sualib 

 were innocent of any participation in the piratical act recently com- 

 mitted at that village, I have released them from confinement, and 



