THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
During your ftay in port, you are conftantly to keep a i 777i 
good look-out for me. It will be neceffary, therefore, to , Novem _ ber, 8 
make choice of a flation, lituated as near the fea-coaft as is 
poffible, the better to enable you to fee me, when I fhall 
appear in the offing. 
If I do not join you before the ift of next April, you are 
to put to fea, and proceed Northward to the latitude 56°; in 
which latitude, and at a convenient diftance from the coaft, 
never exceeding fifteen leagues, you are to cruize for me 
till the xoth of May. 
Not feeing me in that time, you are to proceed North¬ 
ward, and endeavour to find a paffage into the Atlantic 
Ocean, through Hudfon’s or Baffin’s Bays, as directed by 
the above-mentioned inftrudtions. 
But if you fhould fail in finding a paffage through either 
of the laid bays, or by any other way, as the feafon of the 
year may render it unfafe for you to remain in high lati¬ 
tudes, you are to repair to the harbour of St. Peter and St. 
Paul, in Kamtfchatka, in order to refrefh your people, and 
to pafs the winter. 
But, neverthelefs, if you find, that you cannot procure 
the neceffary refrefhments at the faid port, you are at li¬ 
berty to go where you fhall judge moft proper; taking 
care, before you depart, to leave with the Governor an 
account of your intended deftination, to be delivered to 
me upon my arrival: And in the fpring of the enfuing 
year, 1779, you are to repair back to the above-mentioned 
port, endeavouring to be there by the 10th of May, or 
fooner. 
If, on your arrival, you receive no orders from, or ac¬ 
count of me, fo as to juftify your purfuing any other mea- 
fures than what are pointed out in the before-mentioned 
inftrudlions. 
