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After landing all the articles at Sydney, you will take on board 

 sufficient ballast, and proceed, via Cape Horn, to the United States, 

 stopping at Rio de Janeiro if you require any provisions, stores, or 

 slop clothing, which you will obtain by requisitions on the navy store- 

 keeper there. You will not remain at Rio de Janeiro over ten days, 

 and will proceed to Norfolk or New York, the latter if the season will 

 permit, to enable you to dispose of the specimens, in regard to which 

 you have separate orders enclosed, and to which I request your parti- 

 cular attention. 



You will take charge of, and send to the Navy Department, the log- 

 books of the squadron sent home by you. 



You will, during the cruise, take on board the Relief, and ship, all 

 distressed American seamen whom you may meet with. 



On your arrival in the United States, you will show these orders to 

 the commander of the station, and report by letter through him, to the 

 Honourable the Secretary of the Navy, enclosing him a copy of them, 

 as he has been requested to direct the payment of your officers and 

 crew by the purser of the station, to whom you will deliver the rolls 

 and accounts, with a statement of the money and slops advanced by 

 you, that the same may be checked, taking receipts for the same, as 

 offsets to the amount furnished you here in money and slop clothing. 



You will keep a correct muster-roll of your officers and crew, 

 noting any changes. 



You will require from the officers all their journals, specimens, &c, 

 agreeably to the instructions of the Navy Department ; all of which 

 you will box up and deposit at the Navy Department. 



I enclose letters for the Consuls at the Sandwich Islands, and 

 Sydney. Any expenses they may incur on the stores will be refunded 

 on my arrival. 



Should the Consul and Vice-Consul at Sydney be absent, you will 

 call on Messrs. Edwards and Hunt. 



If possible, you will anchor in the inner harbour at Oahu. 



You will leave for me, with the Consul at Sydney, a report of your 

 cruise from this place to Sydney ; and you will on your arrival at 

 home, forward to the Honourable the Secretary of the Navy, under 

 cover to me, a report of the proceedings of the Relief from Sydney 

 to the United States, addressed to me at Washington. 



I am, &c, 



Charles Wilkes, 

 Commanding Exploring Expedition. 



Lieut. Com. A. K. Long, 



Relief. 



