OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS. 
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or such charts as you may be able to mate ; in which duty you will be 
assisted by Lieutenants Beechey and Hoppner, whose skill in drawing 
is represented to be so considerable, as to supersede the necessity of 
appointing professional draughtsmen. 
You are to make use of every means in your power to collect and 
preserve such specimens of the animal, mineral, and vegetable king- 
doms, as you can conveniently stow on board the ships ; and of the 
larger animals you are to cause accurate drawings to be made, to 
accompany and elucidate the descriptions of them : in this, as well as 
in every other part of your scientific duty, we trust that you will 
receive material assistance from Captain Sabine. 
In the event of any irreparable accident happening to either of the 
two ships, you are to cause the officers and crew of the disabled ship 
to be removed into the other ; and with her singly to proceed in pro- 
secution of the voyage, or return to England, according as circum- 
stances shall appear to require ; understanding that the officers and 
crews of both ships are hereby authorized and required to continue to 
perform their duties, according to their respective ranks and stations, 
on board either ship to which they may be so removed, in the event 
of an occurrence of this nature. Should, unfortunately, your own 
ship be the one disabled, you are, in that case, to take the command 
of the Griper ; and, in the event of any fatal accident happening to 
yourself, Lieutenant Liddon is hereby authorized to take the command 
of the Hecla, placing the officer of the Expedition, who may then be 
next in seniority to him in command of the Griper ; also, in the event 
of your own inability by sickness or otherwise, at any period of this 
service, to continue to carry these Instructions into execution, you are 
to transfer them to the officer the next in command to you employed 
