The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-23 00:00:00

" Sir JOHN FRANKLIN, Commanding
• c, the Expedition.
n PRICE OTAMPE,D, SD. All well.

RELICS SEEN IN LIT. 69 deg. 09 N., Lon. 99 deg. 24 IV
NOT BROUGHT AWAY. 30TII MAY, 1.859.:
A larp; boat, measuring 28 ft: in extreme length, 7 ft. 3
in. in breadth, 2 ft. 4 in. in depth. The markings on her
stern were—XXll. W. Con. N 61., APr. 184. It appears
that the fore part of the stem has been cut away, probably
to reduce weight, and part of the letters and figures re-
moved. An oak sledge under tke boat, 23 ft. 4 in. long,
and 2 ft. wide; six paddles, about 60 fathoms of deep-
sea lead line, ammunition,- four cakes of navy chocolate,
shoemaker's box with implements complete, a small quan-
tity of tobacco, a small pair of very stout shooting boots,
a pair of very heavy iron- shod -knee boots, carpet boots,
sea boots and shoes—in all 7 or 8 pairs, two rolls of sheet
lead, elm tingles for repairing the boat, nails of various
sizes for boat and sledge irons, a broken saw, leather cover
of sextant case, a chain-cable punch, silk handkerchief
(black, white, and coloured), towels, sponge, toothbrush,
hair comb, a mackintosh, gun cover (marked in paint
"A. 12"), twine, files, knives, a small worsted work-
slipper, lined with calfskin, bound with red ribbon ; a great
quantity of clothing, and a wolfskin robe; part of a boat's
sail of No. 8 canvas, whale line rope with yellow mark, and
white line with red mark ; 24 iron stancheons, 91 inches
high, for supporting a weather cloth round the boat; a
stancheon for supporting a ridge pole at height of three feet
nine inches above the gunwale; three small axes.
RELICS youNp ABOUT Ross' CAIRN, POINT VICTORY,
MAY AND JUNE, 1859, BROUGHT AWAY.
A six-inch disc circle, by Robinson, marked 122. A
ease of medicines 'consisting of 25 small bottles, a cannister
of pills, ointment, plaster, oiled silk, &c. A two-foot rule,
two joints of the cleaning rod of a gun, and a small copper
spindle, probably for dog-vanes of boats. The circular
brass plate broke out of a wooden gun case, and engraved
C. H. Ormer' R.N. The field glass and German silver top
of a two-foot telescope, a coffee cannister,,a piece of a brass
curtain rod. The record tin—the record, dated-25th April,
1848, has been taken out: A ,six-inch double frame sex-
tant, on which the owner's name is engraved, Frederick
Hornby, R.N. •
FOUND•IN A SAIA.LL CAIRN ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF
BACK BAY.
A tin record case and record. The latter has been taken
out.
SEEN ABOUTROSS CAIRN, POINT VICTORY, NOTBROUGHT
AWAY.
Four sets of boat cooking apparatus complete, iron hoops,
4 feet of a copper lightning conductor. Hollow brass cur-
tain rod, three-quarters of an inch diameter. 3 pickaxes, 1
shovel, &d canvas, a pile of warm clothing blankets 2
feet high, 2 tin canteens stamped 89 Co. William
Hedge, 88 Co. William Heather, and a third one
not marked. A small pannikin made on board out of
a 21bs. preserved meat tin (and marked W. Mark), a
small deal box for gun wadding. The heavy iron work of
a large boat, part of a canvas tent, part of an oar sawed
longitudinally, and a blanket nailed to its fiat side, three
boat hook staves, strips of copper, a 9 inch single block
strap, a piece of rope and spun yarn. Amongst the cloth-
ing was found a stocking marked "W. Green," and a
fragment of one marked " W.S."
RELICS OBTAINED AT THE NORTHERN CAIRN, NEAR
CAPE FELIX, MAY 1859.
Fragments of a boat's ensign in a bag, metal lid of a pow-
der flask, two eye pieces of sextant tubes, brass button (in a
small duck bag), worsted glove, colours red, white, and
blue, bung-stay of a marine's water keg or bottle, brass
ornament to a marine's shako, brass screw for screwing
down lid ; also a copper hinge of the lid of powder case, a
few patent wire cartridges containing large shot, part of a
pair of steel spectacles, glass being replaced by wood, hav--
ing a narrow slit in it ; two small rib bones, probably out
of salt pork, six or eight packets of needles, small flannel
cartridge containing an ounce of damaged powder, these
articles are in a small duck bag; a small,- roughly made
copper apparatus for cooking, some brimstone matches. All
the articles included in this line aro packed together in a
copper cooking apparatus, and secured in a bag. Piece of
white paper folded up found in the North Cairn, two pike
heads, narrow strip of white paper, found under one of the
tent places ; their tent places were within a few yards of the
cairn.
Beside a small cairn, about three miles north of Point
Victory, a pickaxe with broken handle brought away, an
empty tea or coffee canister.
ARTICLES NOTICED ABOUT THE NORTH CAIRN, NOT
BROUGHT AWAY.
Fragments of two broken 'bottles, 'several pieces of
broken basins or cups, blue and white dell ware, hoops of
mariner's water bottle, small iron hoops, fragments of white
line, spun yarn, canvas and, twine, three small canvas tents,
under which lay, bearskin, blankets, and fragments of blan-
kets, two blanket froeks, several old mits, stockings, gleves,
pilot cloths, and box of cloth jackets and tirowsers, large shot,
piece of tobacco and broken pipe, metal part of powder
case, top of tin canister, marked cheese, preserved potato
tin, feathers of ptarmigan, and salt meat' bones.
SEEN NEAR CAPE MARIA LOUISA.
Part of a drift tree, white spruce fir, 18 feet long, 10
inches in diameter; it appeared to have but recently (i.e.,
since thrown on the coast) been sawed longitudinally down
the centre, and one-half of it removed.
RELICS OBTAINED PROM THE BOOTHIAN ESQUIMAUX,
NEAR THE MAGNETIC POLE, IN MARCH AND 'APRIL,
1859.
Seven knives made by the natives out of materials ob-
tained from the last expedition, 1 knife without a handle,
1 spearhead and staff (the latter has broken off), 2 files, a
large spoon or scoop, the handle of pine or bone, the bowl
of musk oxhorne, 6 silver spoons and forks, the property of
Sir John Franklin, Lieuts. H. de Vescomte and Faiiholme,
A. M'Donald, Assistant-Surgeon and Lieut. E. Couch
(supposed from the initial letter T and crest a lion's head),
a small portion of a gold watch chain, a broken piece of
ornamental work apparently silver guilt, a few small naval
and other metal buttons, a silver medal, obtained by Mr.
M'Donald as a prize for superior attainments at a medical
examination in Edinburgh, April, 1838, some bows and
arrows in which wood, iron, or copper has been used in the
construction—of no other interest.
REMARKS UPON THESE ARTISLES.— The spear staff
measures 6 feet 3 inches in length, and appears to have been
Part of a light boat's sail, it measured (before being partially
rounded to adapt it to its present use) about If 'by 11
inches, is made of English oak, and upon the side has been
painted white over green. The spear head is of steel,
'wetted to two pieces of hoop, with bone between and lashed
on to the staff. The rivets are of copper nails. The native
who sold it said he himself got it from the boat in the Fish
River. Another spear of the same kind was seen. The
knives are mado either of iron or steel rivetted to two strips
of hoop, between which the handle of wood is inserted, and
rivets passed through, securing them together. The rivets
are almost all made of copper nails, such as would be found
in a copper-fastened boat, but those which have been exa-
mined do not bear the Government mark. It is probable that
most of the boats of the Erebus and Terror were built by con-
tract, and thereforewould not have the broad arrow stamped
upon their iron and copper work. Ono small knife appears
to have been a surgical instrument. A large knife obtained
in April, bears some marking, such as a sword or a cutlass .
might have. The man who sold it said he bought it from
another, who picked it up on the land where the ship was
driven ashore by the ice, and where the white people had
thrown it away ; it was then about as long as his arm.
This was the first information he received of one of the
ships having drifted on shore. One knife and one file are
stamped with the broad arrow. The handles are variously
composed of oak, ash, pine, mahogany, elm, and bone. The
spoons and forks were readily sold for a few needles each, also
the buttons they wore as ornaments on their dresses. Bows
and arrows were readily exchanged for knives. Previously
to the stranding on the neighbouring shore of the last expe-
dition these people must have been almost destitute of wood or
iron. Some of them had even got only bone knives, spear
points. Some of their sledges were seen consisting of two
rolls of seal skin flattened and frozen, to serve as runners,
and connected together by cross bars of bones. Many more
knives, bone, and buttons, similar to those brought away,
might have been obtained, but no personal or important
relics.
SEEN IN A SNOW 11UT IN LAT. 71 DEG. N., 20TH APRIL,
1859, NOT BROUGHT AWAY.
Two wooden shovels, one of them made of mahogany •
board, some spear handles, and a bow of English wood, a
deal case which might have served for a telescope or baro-
meter. Its external dimensions were : —length, 3 ft. 1 in. ;
depth 3f in. ; width, 9 in. ; two brass hinges remained at-
tached to it.
RELICS OBTAINED FROM THE ESQUIMAUX NEAR CAPE
NORTON, UPON THE EAST COAST OP KING WILLIAM
ISLAND, in May, 1859.
2 table spoons, upon one is scratched VT W, on thy
other W G, these bear the Franklin crest ; 2 table
forks, one bearing the Franklin crest, the other is
also crested, [probably Captain Crozier's, silversmith's
name is I. West ; 2 teaspoons, one engraved
A.M.D. (A. M'Donald), the other bears the Fairholnie
crest and motto; handle of a dessert knife, into which had
been inserted a razor (since broken off) by Millikin, Strand;
buttons, weed, and iron were hero in abundance, but as
enough of theso had already been obtained no more were
purchased.
Taken out of some deserted huts (snow) near here, some
scraps of different kinds of wood, such as could not be ob-
tained from a boat, teak or African oak.
Found lying about the skeleton, nine miles eastward of
Cape Herschel, May, 1859.—The tie of a black silk hand-
kerchief, fragments of a double-breasted blue cloth waist-
coat, with eovered silk buttons, and edged with braid ; a
scrap of a coloured cotton shirt, silk covered buttons of
blue, cloth great coat, a small clothes brush, a horn pocket-
comb, a leather pocket-book, which fell to pieces when
thawed and dried ; it contained nine or ten letters, a few
leaves apparently blank. A sixpence, date 1831, and a
half sovereign, date 1844.
From beside an Esquimaux stone-mark, on the east side
of Montreal Island—Part of a preserved-meat tin, painted
red ; part of the rim of some strong copper case or vessel ;
pieces of iron hoop, two pieces of fiat iron, an iron hook
bolt, a piece of sheet copper.
Articles seen amongst the natives at Cape Norton, not
purchased—Bows made of wood, knives, uniform and
plain buttons, a sledge made of two long pieces of hard
wood,
- Articles seen about a snow hut, near Point Booth, not
purchased—Eight or ten fir poles, varying from 5 feet to
10 feet in length, the shortest being 21 inches in diameter.
Two woodensnow shovels about 31 feet long, and made of
pieces of plank painted yellow ; it occurred to me that the
pieces of plank might have been the bottom boards o_f
boat. There was abundance of wood fashioned into smaller
articles.
CONTENTS OF BOAT'S MEDICINE CHEST.
One bottle labelled zinzib R. pule, full ; do. spirit
hest., empty ; do. mur. hydrarg, seven-eighths full ; do.
_
01. caryphyll, one fifth full ; do. ipec. P. co., full ; do.
01. month. pip., empty ; do. lid. ammo
.. ,
n fort three-quarters
full ; do. 01. olivac, full ; do. tinct. opu. camph., three-
quarters full; do. vin. sem. colch, full do. do., quarter
full ; do. calomel, full (broken) ; do. hydrarg. hit. oxyd.,
full; do. pule. gregor, ,full (broken) ; do. Magmas Carb.,
full; do. camphor, full; two bottles tine. tolut. (each quarter
full ; one probang, one pen wrapped up
full); one bottle 'pee. R. pulvr., full; do. jalap It. pulvr.,
do. (not labelled) tinct. opu, three-quarter full ; one box
(apparently) pnrgative pills, full ; do. ointment, shrunk ;
one lead hes
pe"ncil, one pewter syringe, two small tubes
wrapped up in lint, one farthing, bandages, oil, silk,
(Signed) DAVID WALKER, M.D.,
Surgeon to Expedition.
Fox, Port Kennedy, June, 1859.
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Enclosed are copies of original
papers found by
Captain M'Clintock on Prince of Wales' Island :
"- of May, 1847.
" Her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror win.

‘! Whoever finds this paper is requested to forward
it to the Secretary-of the Admirai+n-London,
a note of the. time and place at which it was found,
or if more convenient, to eeliver it for that purpose
to the British ;Consul at the IlsCiats t port."
The same in French.
The same in Spanish. .
The same in Dutch.
• The same in Danish. A
• ' The same in German.
i" Left the ships Monday, the 24th of May, 1347,
the party consisting of two officers and six men.
" G. -111. GORE, Lieutenant. . _ _

" CHAS. F.'DES VIEUX, Mate."
The words " wintered in 1846-47 at Beechey
Island" should be "in 180-46," as in 1846.47
_ _

they were beset in the ice, and the ships abandoned
in April, 1848. Tha same mistake occurs in both
papers. _
"Admiralty, 5ept..22."

MUTINY ON BOARD TILE GREAT
EASTERN.

A special petty sessions was held at Weymouth
on Wednesday, before Captain Manning and It. H.
Swaffield, Esq., county magistrates, for the purpose
of hearing.a charge preferred by Captain Harrison,
the commander, against 30 of the crew for mutin-
ous conduct on board the Great Eastern, in having
wilfully disobeyed orders on Sunday morning last,
The names of the defendants were James Laing,
Francis YohnsOn, John Wilson-,--John Brown,
Ed-
ward Dowell, Chapman Purnell, Charles Linsell,
John Martin, Henry, Benwell, Grimsey Thurston, •
Forssell Sigfrid, Win. Bullard, Brandford Coperno,
Joseph Brodie, John. Cullen, Alex. Donaldson. Wm.
Hunter, John Wright, Charles' Benson, Frederick
Kcpsky, Henry. Numroo, Robert Owens, Stephen
MoreAouse, James Adams, Robert Mitchell, Win:
Ward, Richard_Milley, John Wilby, Wm. Cobb,
and Thomas Friend; and the particulars of the case
will be gathered from the 'evidence beloiv.
• Mr. Howard appeared on. the part of Captain
Harrison, and Mr. Hill for the defendants.
The case having -been briefly stated by Mr.
Howard, he called
Mr. Nicholas Prowse, who said—l am senior
officer on board the Great Eastern. ThO defendants,
30 in number, are all seamen belonging to her. In
consequence of Mr. Randall, the officer jn. command,
reporting to me'that the boatswain hail,some diffi-
culty in getting the men to wash decks I imme-
diately went up and mustered. I asked them why.,
they refused to wash decks when ordered. A few
of them answered—typo in particular, Francis John-
son and Joseph Brodie—that there was no necessity
for washing decks on a Sunday, and they should
do nothing but what was required, and washing
decks on Sunday morning was not necessary. :Not
believing this was the feeling amongst the whole
of the men, I ordered those who were determined
to refuse to obey orders to stand • on the-starboard
side of the deck, and those who were inclined to do as
they were ordered to stand a little further aft.- The,
men present walked on the starboard side, and about
the same number walked aft, signifying. that they
were prepared to obey orders, and they at once
proceeded to wash decks. The defendants went for-
ward and knocked off work. As soon as possible I
reported the affair to Captain Harrison. The de-
fendants have signed the ship's articles. I put in
the official log-book, in which are entered the names
of the men, and the complaint made against them.
When I reported it to Captain Harrison he ordered
me to muster those who had refused duty on deck.
I did so, and Captain Harrison asked- them why
they refused to obey orders. Brodie was the spokes-
man on this occasion ; •he answered in pretty muoh
the same terms as before—that they did not seethe

necessity of washing decks on Sunday, and that
they would not do it. They then went below, and
have not been on duty since. It is usual to wash
decks on Sunday mornings, whether at sea or in
harbour, in any vessel.
Cross-examined.—The Great Eastern has not her
full crew on board::- There were about 60 able-
bodied seamen on board, including the prisoners.
The work imposed upon them was not more than
sufficient for them to do. They were quite sufficient
to do all that is required as she lay in Portland.
Roads. • There have been a great number of visi-
tors on board, which very possibly made the decks
more dirty than usual. The men on board kept .a
watch of two hours, which is always the custom.
They would be liable to be called upon, as at pre-
sent, even if there was a full crew. Brodie scame to
me on the Monday, and said he was willing to do
any necessary work, laying a stress on the wor d
" necessary.' He did not mean on the Sundays,
and he left me with the impression that he intended
to judge what was necessary on Sunday. Never
knew an instance of ship's articles being placed in
the forecastle. I have always understood that when
a ship's crew was completed and ready to proceed
to sea, a copy of the ship's articles is to be placed so
as the mon might have access to it. I am not
aware there is a penalty for not doing so, but
the articles have been read over to the men
when they signed, and each man was asked if
he understood them. The articles were not read
over to the men when their disobedience was reported
to me. There was a copy of the articles on board,
and if any man had asked to see it, there was
one accessible to him, but there was not one posted
up. According to the articles the men are obliged
to be clean on Sundays, so as to attend Divine
worship, but we have not had a service on board as
yet. Had those 60 men turned to and cleaned decks
when ordered, each man could have gone below and
cleaned himself by eight o'clock in the morning.
They had never disobeyed before.
Re-examined—Those who remained were not
enough to wash decks, but they swept the decks.
All those men had only two hours watch from six
the previous evening. I consider they have had
easy duty since they left the river. .
Captain Harrison was then called. He said—On
Sunday morning, in consequence of what I heard, I
ordered the men who had refused to be mustered,
and went on deck. I asked them why they had re-
fused to obey orders. Brodie answered that they
did not consider washing decks on Sunday neces-
sary work. I told them I did not think they were
the right parties to judge what was necessary ; I
considered it to be so,
and requested them to do it.
Brodie made some remarks about having a soul to
• be saved, and I said I wanted the decks washed,
and if they did not choose to turn to they might go
forward, which they did.
hado
been I t. addressinga k Fe urnhula ios e
measure
Cross-examined—Brodie used the words "I" and
" We," speaking for himself and the rest.
Mr. Hill, for the defendants, said he could not
deny that the defendants had disobeyed orders, but
it had been clearly shown that it was the first of-
fence of that nature they had committed. He was
of opinion that the charge of combination against
Johnson and Brodie could not be sustained, as there
was no act in evidence to prove that such was the
case. In answer to the charge of disobedience, ho
might state that if the act of Parliament had been
complied with, by the agreement being posted up,
as well as made accessible, in all probability they
would not have refused to obey orders. They were
clearly under the apprehension that washing down
ntheir most
of the articles. Under these circum-
the decks on Sunday did not come within re-
quirementsthat
stances he hoped the magistrates would be pleased
to look upon this affair leniently. .
Captain Harrison, in reply to Mr. Hill, said he
month,
be
e
did not intend to employ any one of the men again.
certainly decline doing so.
After the way in which they hatcdhaslebe:hheivinnavtsdooeednhcee
i t should ap .
thespeerCai
roaeupdst magistratesatclhnoant lide e Manning,rbaa tdi
leader in this unfortunate matter, and had thus led
the other men into the dilemma in which they were
placed. The sentence un him was that he should
with h
forfeited,ar
any wages due to him. Brodie had also figured
conspicuously in this matter, but not in so bad a
degree as Johnson. He would therefore be impri-
tbheaitmtpwroisdoanyeds,
payfor shoulda
impri-
soned, with hard labour, for three weeks, and also
to forfeit two d '
Vs Pay. The remainder would be
imprisoned, with hard labour, for a fortnight, and
be subject to a similar forfeiture of wages.
They were afterwards taken in custody to the
County Gaol, at Dorchester.—Dorset county
diflathboorour,waenr
were
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