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highest latitude you can reach, and proceeding to the 
eastward from the point at which you had left off the 
preceding year, you will seek for fresh places on which 
to plant your observatory in all directions from the 
pole. 
“ In the event of finding any great extent of land, you 
will, as far as may be practicable, lay down the promi- 
nent parts of its coast line; and you will endeavour not 
only to correct the positions of Graham Land and En- 
derby Land, and other places which have been seen only 
at a distance, but to obtain some knowledge of the nature 
of those yet unvisited tracts for geographical research; 
and the magnetic objects of your voyage may be so con- 
ducted as mutually to assist each other. . . . 
“ The South Shetlands, or the Orkneys, or perhaps the 
Sandwich Islands, and lastly, the Falklands, will prob- 
ably terminate your magnetic; labours in the Antarctic 
seas ; and if at those latter islands you should not receive 
further orders from us, you will return to England by 
such a route as yO_u may think most conducive to the 
ruling object of the expedition. 
“ In an enterprise of the nature which has been briefly 
stated in these orders, much must be left to the dis- 
cretion, temper, and judgment of the commanding officer; 
and we fully confide in your combined energy and pru- 
dence for the successful issue of a voyage, which will 
engross the attention of the scientific men of all Europe. 
. . . We also caution you against allowing the two 
vessels to separate ; and we direct you to appoint, not only 
a sufficient number of well-chosen rendezvous, but to keep 
up the most unreserved communication with the com- 
mander of the Terror, placing, in him every proper con- 
fidence. , . . .. .We also recommend that a frequent 
