A VOYAGE TO 
[In England. 
Having performed this service, you are carefully to examine 
the Gulf of Carpentaria, and the parts to the westward thereof, be- 
tween the 130th and 139th degrees of east longitude ; taking care to 
seize the earliest opportunity to do so, when the seasons and preva- 
lent winds may be favourable for visiting those seas. 
When you shall ha ve explored the Gulf of Carpentaria and the 
parts to the westward thereof, you are to proceed to a careful investi- 
gation and accurate survey of Torres' Strait, and when that shall 
have been completed, you are to examine and survey the whole of 
the remainder of the north, the west, and the north-west coasts of New 
Holland, and especially those parts of the coast most likely to be 
fallen in with by East-India ships in their outward-bound passages. 
And you are to examine as particularly as circumstances will 
allow, the bank which extends itself from the Trial Rocks towards 
Timor, in the hope that by ascertaining the depth and nature of the 
soundings thereon, great advantage may arise to the East-India Com- 
pany's ships, in case that passage should hereafter be frequented by 
them. 
So soon as you shall have completed the whole of these surveys 
and examinations as above directed, you are to proceed to, and 
examine very carefully the east coast of New Holland, seen by cap- 
tain Cook, from Cape Flattery to the Bay of Inlets ; and in order to 
refresh your people, and give the advantage of variety to the painters, 
you are at liberty to touch at the Fejces, or some other of the islands 
in the South Seas. 
During the course of the survey, you are to use the tender under 
your command as much as possible ; moving the Investigator on- 
ward from one harbour to another as they shall be discovered, in 
order that the naturalists may have time to range about and collect 
the produce of the earth, and the painters allowed time to finish as 
many of their works as they possibly can on the spot where they may 
have been begun : And when you shall have completed the whole of the 
surveys and examinations as above-mentioned, you are to lose no time 
in returning with the sloop under your command to England fox- 
farther orders, touching on your way., if necessary, at the Cape of 
