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introduction. 
dition to Port Jackson, and you will, on your arrival, 
deliver to Governor Macquarie the accompanying des- 
patches, which state the object which you have in view, 
and the means by which it is to be accomplished. The 
Governor will place at your disposal any colonial vessel 
which you may consider best calculated for the voyage, 
and you will concert with him as to the equipment of such 
vessel, and avail yourself of his knowledge of the several 
persons in the colony, in order to select a crew on whom 
reliance can be placed for steadiness and subordination. 
Besides the persons necessary for the navigation of the 
vessel, you will receive on board Mr. A. Cunningham, a 
botanist, now in New South Wales, who has received 
the orders of Sir Joseph Banks to attend you ; and you 
will engage any other person, if there be such in the 
colony, who possesses a competent knowledge of Minera- 
logy or Natural History. 
It is on every account most desirable that the Expedi- 
tion should proceed from Port Jackson as early as possi- 
ble ; you will therefore make every exertion in your power 
to accelerate your departure from thence, and your ar- 
rival at the point specified in your Admiralty instruc- 
tions. 
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having 
given you detailed instructions relative to the naval 
objects of the Expedition, I have only to direct your 
