458 APPENDIX. 



In case you should not be able to reach the Bay of Islands, prior to 

 the 25th of March, you will thence make for the island of Tonga- 

 taboo, Friendly Group, where you will find me or orders directing 

 your further movements. (If no intelligence before the 15th of April, 

 you will then proceed to the Feejee Group of Islands, Harbour of 

 Takanova, or Sandalwood Bay, and there continue to employ your- 

 self making the various surveys directed in the copy of the instruc- 

 tions.) 



Leave letters where you may stop, and place signal No. 2 on a 

 conspicuous spot; No. 1 will represent the Vincennes, No. 3 the 

 Porpoise, and No. 4 the Flying-Fish. 



In the event of your penetrating the ice, with the prospect of a 

 clear sea before you, you will steer to the westward, bearing in mind 

 that the only prospect of again clearing it is on the route you first 

 followed, or that supposed to have been taken by Weddell, between 

 the longitude of 35° and 49° W. 



On clearing it, you will proceed to carry out the foregoing instruc- 

 tions, to make the appointed rendezvous with the least possible delay. 



(It is my intention, if I am not detained by ice, to reach the harbour 

 of Sandalwood Bay, in the Feejee Group, in April, and after exami- 

 ning those islands, to proceed to the Sandwich Islands for provisions 

 early in July. I state this that you may govern yourself accordingly, 

 in the event of your not being able to meet me or the Peacock at any 

 of the rendezvous pointed out. Should you fall in with the Peacock, 

 Captain Hudson will give you the necessary instructions.) 

 I am, very respectfully, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) Charles Wilkes, 



Commanding Exploring Expedition, 



The foregoing instructions were sent to Captain Hudson. To 

 Lieutenants-Commandant Ringgold and Pinkney, without the clause 

 in parenthesis. 



U. S. Ship Vincennes, 



At Sea, December 29th, 1839. 

 Sir, — 



The following; observations and duties will be attended to on board 

 the Flying-Fish, under your command, during her present cruise to 

 the Antarctic Ocean : 



1st. You will keep a daily journal of every occurrence of interest. 



2d. Your route will be daily laid down upon the skeleton chart ; 



