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You will pay particular attention to all your observations, and make 

 a full examination of any thing you may fall in with. 



On your arrival at Matavai Bay, you will lose no time in obtaining 

 sights for your chronometers on shore, on Venus Point. 



I am, &c, 



Charles Wilkes, 

 Captain Hudson, Commanding- Exploring- Expedition. 



Peacock. 

 Lieutenant-Commandant Ringgold, 



Porpoise. 

 Lieutenant-Commandant Pinkney, 



Flying-Fish. 



XL. 



U. S. Ship Vincennes, 



Callao, July 12th, 1839. 

 Sir, — 



You will proceed from this port to Oahu, Sandwich Islands, taking 

 in your route the American Group of islands, in latitude 16° 10' N., 

 longitude 134° 50' W. These islands have been unsuccessfully looked 

 for by Captain Beechey, in this position ; you will therefore make the 

 latitude in longitude 130° W., to the eastward of their supposed situation, 

 and run along it until you reach 140° W. : — thence direct to Oahu. 



On your arrival there, you will leave in charge of the United States 

 Consul, P. A. Brismade, Esq., all of the articles on board of the Relief 

 belonging to the Exploring Expedition, excepting eight months' provi- 

 sions for your crew, and sundry articles of provisions and stores to be 

 landed at Sydney, New South Wales, agreeably to the lists enclosed 

 herewith. 



You will take from the consul receipts for the provisions which 

 you may land for me at Sydney ; you will require him, also, to have 

 two-thirds of the flour (reserving the kiln-dried) you deliver him, baked 

 and ready for the squadron early in the spring. 



After remaining at Oahu fifteen days, you will proceed direct to 

 Sydney, New South Wales, passing through the different archipelagoes 

 as you may deem most expedient, and as the winds will permit. On 

 your arrival at Sydney, you will leave in charge of J. H. Williams, 

 United States Consul there, all the provisions and stores named in the 

 list herewith marked " for Sydney," taking receipts for them, which 

 you will leave enclosed for me, and request him to have one hundred 

 barrels of the flour (reserving the kiln-dried) baked into hard bread, 

 for the squadron, as soon as convenient. 



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