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London, England, 1859-09-22 00:00:00

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.

ARTICLE 3 NOTICED ABOUT THE NORTH CAIRN, NOT

BROUGHT AWAY.
Fragments of two broken bottles, several pieces of
broken basins or cups, blue and white delf 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 frocks, several old mite, stocking, gloves,
pilot cloths, and box of cloth jackets, a trowser, large shot,
piece of tobacco and broken pipe, metal part of powder
care, top of tin canister, marked cheese, preserved potato
tin, feathers of ptarmigan, and salt meat bones.

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SEEN NEAR CAPE MARIA LOUISA

Part of a drift tree, white spruce fir, 18 iCet long, 10
inches in diameter; it appeared to have but recently (1 e.,
since thrown on the coast) been sawed longitudinally down
the centre, and one-half of it removed.
RELICS OBTAINED PROM TILE BOOTRIAN 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 Voscomte and Fairholme,
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 u3ed in the
construction—of no other interest.

REMARKS UPON THESE ARTICLES.— 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 12 and 1
inches, is made of English oak, and upon the hide has been
painted white over yellow. The spear head is of steel,
nvettecl 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 made 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 elo not bear the Government mark. It is probable that
most of the boats of the Erebus and Terror were built bycon-
tract, and therefore would not have the broad arrow stamped
upon their iron and copper work. One 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 ono of the
ships having drifted on shorn. One knife and outfile 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 neighbourinc, shore of the east 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 shdges wore 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 lIUT IN LAT. 71 DEO. N., 20TH APRIL,

1859, NOT BROUGHT AWAY.
Two wooden shovels, ono 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 31 in. ; width, 9 in. ; two brass hinges remained at-
tached to it.
RELICS OBTAINED }mom TUE ESQUIMAUX NEAR CAPE

NORTON, UPON THE EAST COAST OP KING WILLIAM
ISLAND, in'May, 1859.
2 table spoons, upon one is scratched W W, on thz other
W G, these bear the Franklin crest ; 2 table fork's, one
bearing the Franklin crest, p, obably Captain Crozier's,
silversmith's name is I. West; 2 teaspoons, one engraved
A.M.D. (A. M'l)ouald), the other bears the Fairholme
crest and motto ; handle of a dessert knife,. into which had
been inserted a razor (since broken off) by illikin, Strand;
buttons, wood, and iron were here in abundance, but as
enough of these had .already been obtained no more were
purchased.
Taken out of some deserted huts (snow) near hore, 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 Hcrschell, May, 18.59.—The tie of a black silk hand-
kerchief, fragments of a double-breasted blue cloth waist-
coat, with covered 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 flat iron, an iron crook
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 of a
boat. Thore was abundance of wood fashioned into smaller
articles.