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power ; and to difiribute among the inhabitants fuch things as will remain as 
traces and tefiimonies of your having been there but if you find the countries fo 
difcovered are uninhabited, you are to take poffefiion of them for his Majefty, by 
fetting up proper s marks and inf crip tions, as firft difcoverers and poffeffors. 
But forafmuch as, in undertakings of this nature, feveral emergencies may arife 
not to be for efeen, and therefore not particularly to be provided for by infirublions 
before-hand ■, you are, in all Juch cafes, to proceed as you Jhall judge mofi ad¬ 
vantageous to the Jervice on which you are employed. 
You are, by all opportunities, to fend to our Secretary, for our information, 
accounts of your proceedings, and copies of the furveys and drawings you Jhall have 
made •, and upon your arrival in England, you are immediately to repair to this 
office, in order to lay before us a full account of your proceedings in the whole courfe 
of your voyage ; taking care, before you leave the Jloop, to demandfrom the officers 
and petty officers, the log-books and journals they may have kept, and to feal them 
up for our infpebiion ; and enjoining them, and the whole crew, not to divulge 
where they have been, until they jhall have permijjion fo to do: and you are to di¬ 
rest Captain Clerke to do the fame, with refpecl to the officers, petty officers, and 
crew of the Difcovery. 
If any accident Jhould happen to the Refolution in the courfe of the voyage, fo 
as to difable her from proceeding any farther, you are, in fuch cafe, to remove 
yourfelf and her crew into the Difcovery, and to profecute your voyage in her ; her 
Commander being hereby Jlriblly required to receive you on board, and to obey 
your orders, the fame, in every refpebt, as when you were actually on board the 
Refolution: And, in cafe of your inability, by ficknefs or otherwife, to carry 
thefe Infirublions into execution, you are to be careful to leave them with the 
next officer in command, who is hereby required to execute them in the befi man¬ 
ner he can. 
Given under our hands the 6th day of July, 177 6, 
SANDWICH. 
C. SPENCER. 
H. PALLISER. 
By command of their Lordfhips, 
PH. STEPHENS. 
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