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lision should be shunned, but that all scenes and situations 
offering any likelihood of its occurrence, should be well ex- 
amined before they are approached. 
It will be inconsistent with any beneficial result, that, in 
its progress outwards, the expedition should force its way 
through the territory of any tribe disposed to resist it. If 
no persuasive means be found of avail to overcome their 
repugnance, the advance in that direction must cease. It is 
only in case of the party itself being attacked or beset by a 
force showing an obvious disposition to assail it, and a deter- 
mination to oppose its progress in any direction, or in case 
of the defiles of a territory being occupied and closed against 
its return, that the Committee can reckon it justifiable to 
exercise upon the lives and persons of the natives those for- 
midable means of warfare with which the expedition has 
been furnished. It will be proper that each individual 
attached to the expedition should have a determinate station, 
in which it is expected that he shall be found in cases of 
emergency ; and it will be well that the measures ‘necessary 
to be adopted should be fully illustrated and impressed 
upon all, by such previous training as circumstances may 
admit of. : 
In regard to the territory the expedition is to visit, there 
are two methods in which it may arrive at beneficial results. 
It may either sweep rapidly over a great length of country, 
with the object of attaining the most distant point which the 
time allotted to it, or the duration of its resources my enable 
it to reach; or it may leisurely examine in detail, throughout 
its length and breadth, the condition, capabilities, and pro- 
ductions of a district of more manageable dimensions. ‘The 
Committee conceive that the former might perhaps be the 
more interesting mode of proceeding, on account of the 
greater probability of romantic peril, adventure, or discovery ; 
