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APPENDIX. 



No. 9. 



(Memorandum.) 



H. M. S. Beagle, Blanco Bay, 

 19th September, 1832. 

 It is my direction that you take command and charge of the hired 

 vessel " La Paz," and of all on board of her. 



You will be extremely careful to keep company with Lieutenant 

 Wickham, unless otherwise directed ; and you will obey his orders, 

 and assist him in carrying my orders into execution. 



Robert Fitz-Roy, Commander. 



To Mr. J. L. Stokes, 

 Assistant- Surveyor, H.M.S. Beagle. 



No. 10. 



H.M.S. Beagle, off San Bias Bay, Coast of Patagonia, 

 Sir, 4th December, 1832. 



As you have already executed a considerable part of the service 

 pointed out to you in my order, dated September 1832, and are 

 ready for a more arduous task than I had supposed your limited 

 means could undertake, you are hereby required and directed to 

 examine and survey as much of the sea- coast between Port Desire 

 and Blanco Bay as time and your means will allow. 



In the first instance, you will hasten to Blanco Bay, and deliver 

 the accompanying despatches to the Commandant of the Buenos 

 Ayrean settlement. 



Afterwards, your route will be that which appears to you the most 

 proper for the verification of the charts with which you are fur- 

 nished, and for the execution of the above-mentioned service. 



You wiU endeavour to pass the month of March in the River Negro, 

 and, if we do not meet sooner, you will look for the Beagle in Blanco 

 Bay at the beginning of July. 



Should she not anive there in July, you will go with both vessels 

 to Monte Video. I have, &c., 



Lieut. J. C. Wickham, Robert Fitz-Roy. 



Commanding the hired Schooners 

 "La Paz" and "La Liebre." 



