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APPENDIX. 



shortly to our relief, you will proceed, in conjunction 

 with the advice of any person competent to judge of 

 the most ready means of chartering a merchant vessel, 

 or secure a vessel calculated to come to the river Leubu 

 without a moment's delay, to embark the officers and 

 crew, and such articles that may be saved from the 

 wreck to the port of Talcuhuana. 



You will arrange with the master of such vessel, and 

 make all the necessary examinations as to the equip- 

 ment of her sails and ground tackle, as well as sound- 

 ness of hull, to answer the object in view. 



It is to be expressly understood by the master of such 

 vessel, that in conducting her to the river Leubu, he is 

 to be subject to your sanction and control. 



You will avail yourself of any opportunity of com- 

 municating with His Majesty's Consul-general at San- 

 tiago as to the purport of your operations at Conception, 

 for the information of the senior officer in the Pacific. 



You will likewise take charge of certain despatches 

 for the senior officer in the Pacific, and His Majesty's 

 Consul-general at Santiago, to be forwarded by the 

 first opportunity from Conception. 

 1st June, 1835. 



{Slg7ied) M. Seymour, Captain. 



To Lieutenant Walter J. Collins, 

 H. M. Ship Challenger. 



