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should hereafter be frequented by them.
So soon as you shall have completed the whole of these Surveys & Examinations as above directed, you are to proceed to & examine very carefully the East Coast of New Holland seen by Captain Cooke, [Cook]from Cape Flattery to the Bay of Inlets, & in order to refresh your people, & give the advantage of variety to the Painters, you are at liberty to touch at the Fegees, [Fijis] or some other of the Islands in the South Seas.
During the course of the Survey, you are to use the Tender under your command as much as possible; moving the Investigator onwards from one Harbour to another as they shall be discovered, in order that the Naturalists may have time to range about, & collect the produce of the Earth, & the Painters allowed time to finish as many of their works as they possibly can, on the spot where they may have been begun: And when you shall have completed the whole of the Surveys & Examinations as abovementioned, you are to lose no time in returning with the Sloop under your Command to England for further Orders, touching in your way if necessary at the Cape of Good Hope, & repairing with as little delay as possible to Spithead, transmit to our Secretary an account of your arrival.