OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS. 



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the place where you winter, you are to endeavour, by every means in 

 your power, to cultivate a friendship with them, by making them pre- 

 sents of such articles as you may be supplied with, and which may be 

 useful or agreeable to them. You will, however, take care not to suffer 

 yourself to be surprised by them, but use every precaution, and be 

 constantly on your guard against any hostility. 



You will endeavour to prevail on them by such reward, and to be 

 paid in such manner as you may think best to answer the purpose, to 

 carry to any of the settlements of the Hudson's Eay or North- West 

 Companies, an account of your situation and proceedings, with an 

 urgent request that it may be forwarded to England with the utmost 

 possible despatch. 



We deem it right to caution you against suffering the two vessels 

 placed under your orders to separate, except in the event of accident 

 or unavoidable necessity ; and we desire you to keep up the most 

 unreserved communications with the Commander of the Hecla, placing 

 in him every proper confidence, and acquainting him with the general 

 tenor of your orders, and with your views and intentions, from time to 

 time, in the execution of them ; that the service may have the full 

 benefit of your united efforts in the prosecution of such a service, and 

 that, in the event of unavoidable separation, or of any accident to 

 yourself, Captain Lyon may have the advantage of knowing, up to the 

 latest practicable period, all your ideas and intentions relative to a 

 satisfactory completion of the undertaking. 



We also recommend that as frequent an exchange take place as con- 

 veniently may be, of the observations made in the two ships ; that any 

 scientific discovery made by the one be as quickly as possible communi- 

 cated for the advantage and guidance of the other, in making their 



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