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 xxxvi the hydrographer detailed accounts of the progress of the survey, as well as tracings of any part of the coast which may be completed. On every occasion which may offer, you are to address a brief report of your proceedings to our Secretary for our information, and at the expiration of three years passed in the execution of the above survey, you are, after communicating with the senior officer, to call at Valparaiso, and by rounding Cape Horn, to repair to Spithead, reporting your arrival and proceedings.

You are to prepare a berth for the botanical collector for plants and seeds for his Majesty's garden at Kew, who is to be borne on the book of the Sulphur for victuals only, and who will mess with the warrant officers; you will furnish him with the means of landing on such parts of the coast of the shores you may visit, to make his collection, when it will not interfere with the survey.

Should anything fatal happen to you on this side of America, the officer next in command is hereby required and directed to return with the Sulphur and Starling to Spithead, calling at Rio Janeiro, if already passed that place.

If that unfortunate event should happen to you on the western side of America, and during the first year, the officer next in command is to continue until the end of that fair weather season, on the work which may have been commenced, and then to return as above.

But should it occur after the vessels have begun their operations in the northern hemisphere, it may be presumed that the officer next in command will have acquired a sufficient acquaintance with your views to proceed with the remainder of the survey on his own