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assure you this is not the case; and if I could see you, I would 
explain things more clearly. 
Your obedient servant, 
J. H. Eacueston. 
P. 8S. I sent this by his first officer. 
XVIII. 
ORDERS. 
Tue officers and crew of this ship will deliver to Doctor Pickering 
and Mr. Drayton, all the shells they may have collected or obtained, 
who will select from the same a sufficient number of each to complete 
one hundred, of the finest specimens, if possible, and furnish lists of 
the same, with the names of the persons who furnished them. 
The undersigned will forward the remainder to the Department, 
with lists, or return them for safe keeping to the collectors, until the 
return of the ship to the United States, as all are prohibited from 
disposing of them, or sending them home, except to the Department. 
The commander of the squadron does not deem it necessary again 
to express his views on this subject. All those who may be unac- 
quainted with them are referred to his General Instructions of the 18th 
April, issued at Orange Harbour, ‘Terra del Fuego. 
Cuaries WIiLkKEs, 
Commanding Exploring Expedition. 
U. S. Ship Vincennes, 
August 13th, 1840, 
A copy sent to the Peacock, with Mr. Peale and Dana’s names 
inserted. 
XIX. 
Schooner Currency Lass, 
Off Turtle Island, August 3d, 1840. 
Tuis 1s to certify, that I have left Joseph Rees on Turtle Island, in 
charge of twenty-seven casks of oil, two empty casks, one jib-boom, 
which | have purchased from the natives. This is also to caution all 
strangers from trespassing on said property, the same having been 
tawfully bought and paid for. 
Cuartes B. Witson, 
Master of Currency Lass. 
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