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should, unless constrained by strong hopes of future success, avoid 
passing a winter in the Arctic regions, and on no account uselessly 
hazard the safety of the vessels under your command, or, what is of 
more importance, unnecessarily expose to danger the officers and men 
committed to your charge. Your attention is also especially directed 
to the care and preservation of their health, for which hygienics have 
been abundantly furnished. 
I transmit herewith, for your information and guidance, a copy of 
the instructions to Dr. Kane, dated November 27, 1852, as also copies 
of a series of letters from Sir Edward Parry, Sir Francis Beaufort, and 
other Arctic authorities, written by command of the British Admiralty, 
and kindly furnished to Dr. Kane, with the object of advancing the 
interests of the expedition to which he had been assigned by the 
Department. 
Sincerely trusting that you may be enabled to carry out successfully 
the objects of the expedition under your command, and that a divine 
Providence will protect you in the hazardous enterprise for which you 
and your companions have so nobly volunteered, 
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant, 
J. C. Dobbin. 
Lieut. Henry J. IIartstene, 
U. S. Navy , Commanding Expedition for Relief 
of Dr. Kane and Companions , New York. 
Report of Lieut. IIartstene to the Hon. Secretary of the Navy. 
United States Barque Release, i 
Lievely, Isle of Disco, Greenland, July 9, 1865. j 
Sir :—I have the honor to inform you of the arrival of the Arctic 
expedition here on the 5th instant, after a most boisterous passage, 
during most of which we were enveloped in dense fogs, and were much 
retarded by towing the Arctic nearly to the southern point of Green¬ 
land, where it was deemed advisable to separate, that this vessel might 
hasten on to make some necessary arrangements; but, much to my 
agreeable surprise, by good management and favorable winds, our con¬ 
sort came in a few hour3 after us, having used steam but for a short 
time. 
The first iceberg was seen in latitude 51° 30' N., longitude 51° 40 / 
W.; and about sixty miles farther north we found thick extreme 
