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

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1859.

CHEAP EXCURSION TO THE NORTH,
via GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A TRAIN will
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from Liverpool, at 10 30 a.m., and intermediate stations
as per handbills.

'THE ROYAL STATION HOTEL, Paragon-
-A- street, Hull, requires only to be visited to be pronounced
one of the most splendid hotels in England. The situation is
open and healthful, a few minutes' walk from all the public
buildings and places of business, and being connected with
the Railway Station, affords railway passengers arriving or
departing by every train day or night, the advantage of being
on the spot, and having their wants and wishes immediately
attended to.
The public should know that under the present manage-
ment they will find every comfort and convenience at the
vame charges they are paying at the minor hotels. It has
accommodation for upwards of one hundred and fifty visitors,
is fitted up with every luxury an hotel can command, and is
so arranged for the advantage of every class of visitor, that
Beds can be had from Is. to 2s. ; Private Rooms, from 2s. to
4s. ; Breakfasts, from ls. 6d. to 28. ; Dinners, from 2s. ; and
all other charges of that moderate character which will give
satisfaction to every class of visitor who may pay the hotel a
visit.
The hotel contains Gentlemen and Ladies' Coffee Rooms ;
a special Room set apart for Commercial Gentlemen ; fourteen
Private suites of -Rooms ; large spacious Rooms for Dinner
Parties, Public Meetings, &c., &c. ; two first-class Refresh-
Went Rooms two Smoke Rooms ; Bath and Billiard Rooms.
A Night Porter in attendance.
EDWIN TAYLOR.

Proprietor of the Royal Station Hotel, Hull, and Crescent
Hotel, Filet'.

N.B.—TAYLOR'S CRESCENT HOTEL, fronting the sea
for Families and Gentlemen. It has accommodation for up -
wards of one hundred and fifty visitors. Table D'll6te at
five o'clock. Omnibuses and Cabs from the hotel meet all the
trains. Good stabling and eoaolt-houses. Moderate terms.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.

ARRIVAL OF THE FOX.

[A portion of the following appeared in our third edition
of last evening] :

Captain M'Clintock lauded yesterday at Ports-
mouth from the Alarm pilot-boat, which vessel had
brought him ashore from the Fox screw discovery
vessel, arrived off the Isle of Wright from the Arctic
Regions.
On landing Captain M'Clintock at once proceeded
by train for London, taking with him two cases
containing relics of the long missing expedition of
Sir John Franklin.

Captain M'Clintock stated that he was. in posses-
sion of papers that would fully elucidate the mystery
which has so long hung over the fate of these brave
men.
The Fex proceeded up Channel.

The Secretary of the Admiralty presents his
compliments to the Editor of The San, and for-
wards the accompanying letter for insertion.
Sept. 22, 1859, 10 30 a.m.

" To THE SECRETARY OF THE ADMIRALTY.

" YACHT FOX, R.Y.S.

" Sir,--I beg you will inform the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty of the saforeturn to this
country of Lady Franklin's Final Searching Expe-
dition, which I hzre had the honour to conduct.

" Their Lordships will rejoice to hear that our
endeavours to ascertain the fate of the Franklin
Expedition' have met with complete success.
"At Point Victory, upon the northwest coast of
King William's Island, a record has been found
dated the 25th of April, 1848, and signed by Cap-
tains Crozier and Fitzjames. By it we were in-
formed that her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror
were abandoned on the 22d of April, 1848, in the
ice, five leagues to the N.N.W., and that the sur-
vivors—in all amounting to 105 souls, under the
command. of Captain Crozier—were proceeding to
the Great Fish River. Sir John Franklin had died
on the 11th of June, 1847.

" Many deeply interesting relics of our lost coun-
trymen have been picked up upon the western
shore of King William's Island, and others ob-
tained from the Esquimaux, by whom we were in-
formed that subsequent to their abandonment one
ship was crushed and sunk by the ice, and the
other forced on shore, where she has ever since
been, affording them an almost inexhaustible mine
of wealth.

" Being unable to penetrate beyond Bellot Strait,
the Fox wintered in Brentford Bay, and the search,
including the estuary of the Great Fish River and
the discovery of 800 miles of coast line, by which
we have united the explorations of the former
searching expeditions to the north and west of our
position with those of James Ross, Deese, and
Simpson, and Rae to the south, has been performed
by sledge journeys this spring, conducted by Lieu-
tenant Hobson, R.N., Captain Allen Young, and
myself.
" As a somewhat detailed report of our proceed-
ings will doubtless be interesting to their lordships,
it is herewith enclosed, together with a chart of our
discoveries and explorations, and at the earliest op-
portunity I will present myself at the Admiralty to
afford further information, and lay before their
lordships the record found at Port Victery.—l have
the honour, to be, &c.,
" F. 1,. M'CLINTOCK, Captain, R.N."

PROCEEDINGS OF THE YACHT FOX,
CONTINUE) FROM MAY, 1858.
It will be remembered that the Fox effected her escape
out of the main pack in Davis' Straits, in lat. 631 deg. N.,
on 25th April, 1858, after a winter's ice drift of 1,194 geo-
graphical miles.
The small settlement of Holsteinborg was reached en the
28th, and such very scanty supplies obtained as the place
afforded.
On May 8 our voyage was recommenced ; Godhaven and
Uppernivik visited, Melville Bay entered early in June,
and crossed to Cape York by the 26th. Here some natives
were communicated with. They immediately recognised
Mr. Petersen, our interpreter, formerly known to them in
the Grinnell expedition under Dr. Kane. In reply; to our
inquiries for the Esquimaux dog-driver " Hans," left be-
hind from the Advance in 1858, they told us he was resid-
ing at Whale Sound. Had he been there I would most
gladly have embarked him, as his longing to return to
South Greenland continues unabated.
On the 12th July communicated with the Cape War-
render natives, near Cape Horsburgh ; they had not seen
any ships since the visit of the Mena in 1854, nor have
any wrecks ever drifted upon their shores.
It was not until 27th July that wo reached Point Inlet
owing to a most unusual prevalence of ice in the northern
portion of Baffin's Bay, and which rendered our progress
since leaving Holsteinborg one of increasing struggle.
Without steam power we could have done nothing. Here
only one old woman and a boy were found, but they served
to pilot us up the inlet for 25 miles, when we arrived at
their village. For about a week we were in constant and
most interesting communication with these friendly people.
Briefly, the information obtained from them was, that
nothing whatever respecting the Franklin expedition had
come to their knowledge, nor had any wrecks within the
last 20 or 30 years reached their shores.
The remains of three wrecked ships are known to them ;
two of these appear to have been the whalers Dexterity and
Aurora, wrecked in August, 1821, some 70 or 80 miles
southward of Pond's Inlet. The third vessel, now almost
buried in the sand, lies a few miles east of Cape Hay. This
people communicate overland every winter with the tribes
at Igloolik ; they all knew of Parry's ships having wintered
there in 1822-3, and had heard of late years of Dr. Rae's
visit to Repulse Bay, describing his boats as similar to our
whale boat, and his party as living in tents, within snow-
houses, smoking pipes, shooting reindeer, &c. None died.
They remained there only one winter.
No rumour of the lost expedition had reached them.
Within Pond's Inlet, the natives told us the ice decays
away every year, but so long as any remains whales abound.
Several large whales were seen by us, and we found
amongst the natives a considerable quantity of whalebone
and many norwhals' horns, which they were anxious to
bsoamrteerrufodreknehiavretss,
offi the inlet,lesaws rifleand wool ; they drew us
showing that it expands into
an extensive channel looking westward into Prince Regent's
Inlet.

We could not but regret that none of our own whaling
friends—from whom we had recently received so much
kindness—were here to profit by so favourable an opportu-
nity. Leaving Pond's Inlet on the Gth Aug. we reached
Beechy Island on 11th, and landed a handsome marble
tablet, sent on board for this purpose by Lady Franklin,
bearing on appropriate inscription, to the memory of our
lost countrymen in the Erebus and Terror.
The provisions and stones seemed in perfect order, but a
small boat was much damaged from having been turned
over and rolled along the beach by a storm. The roof of
the house received some necessary repairs. Having em-
barked some coals and stores we stood in need of, and
touched at Cape Hotham on the 16th, we sailed down Peel
I Strait for 25 milec on 17th, but finding the remainder of this

channel covered by unbroken ice I determined to make for
Bellot Strait en Aug. 19, examined supplies remaining at
Port Leopold, and left there a whale-boat, which we brought
away from Cape Hotham fer the purpose, so as to aid us in
our retreat, should we bo obliged eventually to abandon the
Fox. The steam launch had been forced higher up on the
beach, and somewhat damaged by the ice. Prince Regent's
Inlet was unusually free from ice, but very little was seen
during our run down to Brentford Bay, which we reached
on the 20th August. Bellot Strait, which communicates
with the Western soa, averages one mile in width by
seventeen or eighteen miles in length. At this time it
was filled with drift ice, but as the season advanced be-
came perfectly clear ; its shores are in many places faced
with lofty granite cliffs, and some of the adjacent hills
rise to 1,600 feet; the tides are very strong, running
six or seven knots at the springs. On the 6th of Septem-
ber wo passed through Bellot Strait without obstruction,
and secured the ship to fixed ice across its western outlet.
From here, until the 27th, when I deemed it necessary to
retreat into winter quarters, ,we constantly watched the
movements of the ice in the western sea or channel. In
mid-channel it was broken ap and drifting about; gradu-
ally the proportion of water increased, until at length the
ice which intervened was reduced to three or four miles in
But this was firmly held fast by numerous islets,
and withstood the violence of the autumn gales. It was
tantalising beyond description thus to watch from day to
day the free water which we could not reach, and which
washed the rocky shore a few miles to the southward of us l
During the autumn attempts were made to carry out
depots of pro Visions towards the magnetic pole, but these
almost entirely failed in consequence of the disruption of
the ice to the southward. Lieut. Hobson- returned with
his sledge party in November, after much suffering from
severe weather, and imminent peril on one occasion, when
the ice upon which they were encamped became detached
from the shore, and drifted' off to leeward with them.
Our wintering position was at the east entrance to Ballot
Strait, in a snug harbour, which I have named Port Ken-
nedy, after my predecessor in these waters, the commander
of one of Lady Franklin's former searching expeditions.
Although vegetation was abundant, and our two Esqui-
maux• hunters, Mr. Peterson, and several sportsmen con-
stantly on the alert, yet the resources of the country dur-
ing eleven months and a half only yielded us 8 reindeer, 2
bears, 18 seals, and a few water fowl and ptarmigan.
Tho winter was unusually cold and stormy. Arrange-
ments were completed during the winter for carrying out
our intended plan of search. I felt it to be my duty per,
sonally to visit Marshal Island, and in so doing proposed
to complete the circuit of King William's Island

To Limit. Hobson I allotted the search of the western
shore of Boothia to the magnetic pole, and from Gateshead
Island westward to Wynnatt's furthest. Captain Allen
Young, our sailing master, was to trace the shore of Prince
of Wales' Land, from Lieut. Browne's furthest; and also
to examine the coast from Bellot Strait southward, to Sir
James Ress's furthest.

Early spring journeys were commenced on the 17th
Feb., 1859, by Captain Young and myself. Captain Young
carrying his depot across to Prince of Wales' Land, whilst
I went southward towards the magnetic pole in the hope of
communicating with the Esquimau; and obtaining as
much information as might lead us at once to the object of
our search.

I was accompanied by Mr. Petersen, our interpreter, and
Alexander Thompson, quartermaster. We had with us
two sledges drawn by dogs. On 28th February, when near
Cape Victoria, we had the good fortune to meet a small
party of natives, and were subsequently visited by about
45 individuals.

For four days we remained in communication with them,
obtaining many relics, and the information that several
years ago a ship was crushed by the ice off the north shore,
off King William's Island, but that all her people landed
safely, and went away to the Great Fish River, where they
died. This tribe was well supplied with wood, obtained, they
said, from a boat left by the white men on the great river.
We reached our ♦essel after 2.5 days' absence, in good
health, but somewhat reduced by sharp marching, and the
unusually severe weather to which we lad been exposed.
For several days after starting the mercury continued
frozen.

On 2d April our long projected spring journeys were com-
menced. Lieut. Hobson accompanied me as far as Cape
Victoria ; each of us had a sledge drawn by four men, and
an auxiliary sledge drawn by six dogs. This was all the
force we could muster,

Before separating we saw two Esquimaux families living
out upon the ice in snow hug; from them wo learned that
a second ship had been seen off King William's Island, and
that she drifted ashore in the fall of the same year. From
this ship they had obtained a vast deal of wood and iron.
I now gave Lieut. Hobson directions to search for the
wreck, and follow up any traces he might find upon King
William's Island.

Accompanied by my own party and Mr. Petersen, I
marched along the east shore of King William's Island,
occasionally passing deserted snow huts, but without
meeting natives till the Bth of May, when off Cape Norton,
we arrived
at a snow village containing about 30 inhabi-
tants. They gathered about ti.s without the slightest ap-
pearance of fear or shyness, although none had ever seen
living white people before. They were most willing to
communicate all their knowledge, and barter all their
goods, but would have stolen everything had they not been
very closely watched. Many more relics of our country-
men were obtained—we could not carry away all we might
have purchased. They pointed to the inlet we had crossed
the day before, and told us that one day'3 march up it, and
from thence four days overland, brought them to the wreck.
None of these people had been there since 1857-8, at which
time they said but little remained, their countrymen hav-
ing carried away almost everything. .

Most of our information was received from an intelli-
gent old woman ; she said it was in the fall of the year that
the ship was forced ashore ; many of the white men dropped
by the way, as they went towards the Great River ; but
this was only known to them in the winter following, when
their bodies were discovered. They all assured us that wo
would find natives upon the south shore, at the Great
River, and some few at the wreck ; but unfortunately this
was not the case. Only one family was met with off Point
Booth, and none at Montreal Island or any place subse-
quently visited.
Point Ogle, Montreal Island, and Barrow Island, were
searched without finding anything except a few scraps of
copper and iron in an Esquimaux hiding place.
Recrossing the strait to King William's Island, we
continued the examination of its southern shore without
success till the 24th of May, when about 10 miles eastward of
Cape Herschel a bleached skeleton was found, around
which lay fragments of European clothing. Upon carefully
removing the snow, a small pocket-book was found, con-
taining a few letters—these, although much decayed, may
yet be deciphered. Judging from the remains of Iris dress
this unfortunate young man was a steward or officer's ser-
vant, and his position exactly verified the Esquimaux's as-
sertion that '• they dropped as they walked along."
On reaching Cape Herschel next day, he examined
Simpson's Cairn, or rather what remains of it, which is
only four feet high, and the central stones have been re-
moved, as if by men seeking something within it. My im-
pression at the time, and which I still retain, is that records
were deposited there by the retreating crows, and subse-
quently removed by the natives.
After parting from me at Cape Victoria on the 28th April,
Lieutenant Hobson made for Cape Felix ; at a short distance
westward of it he found a very large cairn, and close to it
three small tents, with blankets, old clothes, and other relics
of a shooting or a magnetic station ; but although the cairn
was dug under, and a trench dug round it at a distance of
10 feet, no record was discovered. A piece of blank paper
folded up was found in the cairn, and two broken bottles,
which may perhaps have contained records, lay beside
it amongst some stones which had fallen from off the top.
The most interesting of the articles discovered here, includ-
ing a boat's ensign, were brought away by Mr. Hobson.
About two miles further to the S.W. a small cairn was found,
but neither records ner relics obtained. About three miles
north of Point Victory a second small cairn was examined,
but only a broken pickaxe and empty canister found.
On 6th May Lieut. Hobson pitched his tent beside a
large cairn upon Point Victory. Lying amongst some loose
stones which had fallen from the top of this cairn was found
a small tin case containing a record, the substance of which
was briefly as follows :—This cairn was built by the Frank-
lin Expedition upon the assumed site of James Ross's pil-
lar, which had not been found. The Erebus and Terror
spent their first winter at Beechy Island, after having
ascended Wellington Channel to lat. 77 deg. N., and re-
turned by the west side of Cornwallis Island. On the 12th of
September, 1846, they were beset in lat. 70.05 N., and lon.
98.23 W.
Sir J. Franklin died on the 11th June, 1847. On the
22d April, 1818, the ships were abandoned live leagues to
the N.N.W. of Pt. Victory, and the survivors, 105 in num-
ber, landed here under the command of Capt. Crozier. This
paper was dated 25th April, 1848, and upon the following
day they intended to start for the Great Fish River. The
total loss by deaths in the expedition up to this date was
nine officers and fifteen men. A vast quantity of clothing
and stores of all sorts lay strewed about, as if here every
article was thrown away which could possibly be dispensed
with ; pickaxes, shovels, boats, cooking utensils, ironwork,
rope, blocks, canvas, a dip circle, a sextant engraved "Fre-
i deric Hornby," R.N., a small medicine chest, oars, &c.
A few miles southward, across Back Bay, a second re-
cord was found, having been deposited by Lieutenant Gore
and M. des Voeux in May, 1847. It afforded no additional
information.
Lieut. Hobson continued his search until within a few

days' .march of Cape Herschel, without finding any trace of
the wreck or of natives. He left full information of his
important discoveries for me; therefore, when returning

northward by the west shore of King William Island, 1 had
the advantage of knowing what had already been found.
Soon after leaving Cape Herschel the traces of natives
became less numerous and lesi recent, and after rounding
the west point of the island they ceased altogether. This
shore is extremely low, and almost utterly destitute of vege-
tation. Numerous banks of shingle and low islets lie off
it, and beyond these Victoria Strait is covered with heavy
and impenetrable packed ice.
When in lat. 69 deg. 09 N., and long. 99 deg. 27 W.,
we came to a large boat, discovered by Lieutenant Hobson
a few days previously, as his notice informed me. It ap-
pears that this boat had been intended for the ascent of the
Fish River, but was abandoned apparently upon a return
journey to the ships, the sledge upon which she was
mounted being pointed in that direction. She measured 28
feet in length, by 71- feet wide, was most' carefully fitted,
and made as light as possible, but the sledge was of solid
oak, and ahnost as heavy as the boat.
A large quantity of clothing was found within her, also
two human skeletons. One of these lay in the after part of
the boat, under a pile of c'othing ; the other, which was
much more disturbed, probably by animals, was found in
the bow. Five pocket watches, a quantity of silver spoons
and forks, and a few religious books, were also found,
but no journals, pocket-books, or even names upon any
article of clothing. Two double-barrelled guns stood up-
right against the boat's side precisely as they had been
placed 11 years before. One barrel in each was loaded and
cocked ; there was ammunition in abundance ; also 301 b.
or 401 b. of chocolate, and some tea and tobacco. Fuel was
not wanting; a drift tree lay within 100 yards of the boat.
Many very interesting relics were brought away by
Lieutenant to some-few by myself. On the sth
of June I reached Point Victory without having found
anything further. The clothing, &c., was again examined
for documents, &c., without success, a record placed in the
cairn, and another buried ten feet north of it.
Nothing worthy of remark occurred upon my return
journey to the ship, which we reached on 19th June, five
days after Lieutenant Hobson.
The shore of King William's Island between its north and
west extremes, Capes Felix and Crozier, has not been visited
by Esqutmaux since the abandonment of the Erebus and
Terror, as the cairns and articles lying strewed about,
which are in their eyes of priceless value, remain un-
touched.

If the wreck still remains visible it is probable she lies
upon some of the off-lying islets to the southward between
Capes Crozier and Herschel.
On the 28th June Capt. Young and his party returned,
having completed their portion of the search, by which tho
insularity of Prince of Wales' Land was determined, and
the coast line intervening betweon the extreme points
reached by Lieuts. Osborne and Browne discovered ; 'also
between Bellot Strait and Sir James Ross's furthest in
1849, at Four River Bay.
Fearing that his provisions might not last out the re-
quisite period, Captain Young sent back four of his men,
and for 40 days journeyed on through fogs and gales With
but one man and the dogs, building a snow hut each night ;
but few men could stand so long a continuance of labour
and privation, and its effect upon Captain Young was pain-
fully evident. -

Lieutenant Hobson was unable to stand without assist-
ance upon his return on board ; he was not in good health
when he commenced his long journey, and the sudden se-
vere exposure brought on a serious attack of scurvy ; yet he
also most ably completed his work ; and such facts will
more clearly evince. the unflinching-spirit with which the
object of our voyage has been pursued in three detached
duties, than any praise of mine.
We were now at length all on board again. As there
were some slight cases of scurvy, all our treasured resources
of Burton ale, lemon juice, and fresh animal food were put
into requisition, so that in a cowaratively short time all
were restored to sound health.

During our sojourn in Port Kennedy we were twice
called upon to follow a shipmate to the grave. Mr.
George Brands, engineer, died of apoplexy, on the 6th
of November, 1858 ; he had been out deer-shooting
for several hours that day, and appeared in excellent
health.

On 14th June, 1859, Thomas Blackwell, ship's steward,
died of scurvy; this man had served in two of the former
searching expeditions. The summer proved a warm one;
we were able to start upon our homeward voyage on the
9th of August, and although the deaths of the engine-
driver in 1857, and of the engineer in 1858, loft us with only
two stokers, yet with their assistance I was able to control
the engines and steam the ship up to Fury Poiat.
For six days we lay there closely beset, when a change
of wind removing the ice, our voyage was confirm-xi almost
without further interruption, to Godhaven, in Disco, where
we arrived on the 27th August, and were received with
great kindness by Mr. Olick, Inspector of North Green-
land, and the local authorities, who obligingly supplied our
few wants.

The two Esquimaux dog drivers wero now discharged,
and on the Ist September we sailed for England.
From all that can bo gleaned frcm the record paper,
and the evidence afforded by the boat, and various articles
of clothing and equipment discovered, it appears that the
abandonment of the Erebus and Terror had been deliberately
arranged, and every effort 4exerted daring the third winter
to render the travelling equipments complete. -
It is much to be apprehended that disease had greatly
reduced the strength of all on board—far more, perhaps,
than they themselves were aware of.
The distance by sledge•route, from the position of the
ships when abandoned, to the boat is 65 geographical
miles ; and from the ships to Montreal Island, 220 miles.

The most perfect order seems to have existed through-
out.

In order to extend as much as possible the public uti-
lity of this voyage, magnetical, meteorological, and other
observations, subservient to scientific purposes, and for
which instruments were supplied through the libe-'
rality of the Royal Society, have been continually and
carefully taken, and' every opportunity has been embraced
by the surgeon, D. Walker, M.D , of forming complete
collections in all the various branches of Natural History.

This report would be incomplete, did I not mention
the obligations I have been laid under to the companions
of my voyage, both officers and men, by their zealous and
unvarying support throughout.
A feeling of entire devotion to the cause, which Lady
Franklin has so nobly sustained, and a firm determination
to effect all that men could do, seems to have supported
them through every difficulty. With less of this enthusiastic
spirit, and cheerful obedience to every command, our small
number-23 in all—would not have sufficed for the success-
ful performance of so great a work.
F. L. M'CLINTOCK, Captain, R.N.,
Commanding the Final Searching Expedition.
'The Yacht Fox, R.Y.S., off the Isle of Wight,
Sept. 21, 1859.

RELICS BROUGHT PROM THE BOAT FOUND IN LAT. 69
08.43 N., LONG. 99 24.42 W., UPON THE, WEST COAST
OF KING WILLIAM ISLAND, MAY 30, 1859.
Two double-barrelled guns—one barrel in each is loaded.
Found standing up against the side in the after part of the
boat.
In One Parcel—A small Prayer Book, cover of a small
book of "Family Prayers," "Christian Melodies," an in-
scription within the cover to "G. G." (Graham Gore ?),
"Vicar of Wakefield," a small Bible, interlined in many
places, and with numerous references written in the mar-
gin, a New Testament in the French language.
Tied together—Two table knives with white handles—
one is marked "W. R. ;" a gimlet, an awl, two iron, sten-
cheons, nine inches long, for supporting a weather cloth,
which was round the boat.
Tied together-26 pieces of silver plate, 11 spoons, 11
forks, and 4 teaspoons, 3 pieces of thin elm board (tingles)
for repairing the boat, and measuring 11 by 6 inches, and
3-10ths inch thick.
All wrapped up in a piece of canvas—Bristles for shoe-
maker's use, bullets, short clay pipe, roll of waxed twine,
a wooden button, small piece of a port fire, 2 charges of shot
tied up in the finger of a kid glove, tied up in a fragment of
a seaman's blue serge frock, cover of a small Testament
and Prayer-book, part of a brass cigar case, frag-
ment of a silk handkerchief, thread case, piece of
scented soap, 3 shot charges in kid glove fingers, a
belted bullet (tied together in a piece of silk pocket hand-
kerchief). Two pair of goggles, made of stout leather and
wire gauze, instead of glass ; a sailmaker's palm, 2 small
brass pocket compasses, a snooding line rolled up in a piece
of leather, a needle and thread case, a bayonet scabbard
altered into a sheath for a knife, tin water bottle for the
pocket, 2 shot pouches (full of shot).
In Canvas—Three spring hooks of sword belts, a gold
lace band, a piece of thin gold twist or cord, a pair of
leather goggles, with crape instead of glass ; a small green
crape veil.
Wrapped together in Canvas—Two small packets of
blank cartridge in green paper, part of a cherry stick pipe
stem, piece of a port fire, a few copper nails, a leather
bootlace, a seaman's clasp kuife, 2 small glass stoppered
bottles (full) placed in medicine chest, 3 glasses of spec-
tacles, part of a broken pair of silver spectacles, German
silver pencil case, pair of silver (?) forceps, such as a na-
turalist might use for holding or seizing small insects, &c.,
a small pair of scissors rolled up in blank paper to which
adheres a printed Government paper such as an officer's
warrant or appointment, a spring hook of a sword belt, a
brass charger for holding two charges of shot.
Wrapped together in canvas.—A small bead purse,
piece of red sealing wax, stopper of a pocket flask, German
silver top and ring, brass match box, one of the glasses of a
telescope, a small tin cylinder, probably made to hold Wolfer
matches, some of the loose grains of shot bave been put
into it ; a linen bag of percussion caps of three sizes : a very
large and old fashioned kind, stamped " Smith's patent" • a
cap with a flange similar to the present musket caps used:
by Government, but smaller ; and ordinary sporting caps of
the smalledt size.
Five watches in a paper packet.
A pair of blue glass spectacles, or goggles, with steel
frame, and wire gauze encircling the glasses, in a tin case.
A pemmican tin painted lead colour, and marked "E"
(Erebus) in black; froth its size it must have contained 20
or 221bs.
Two yellow glass beads, a glass seal with symbol of Free-
masonry.
A 4-inch block strapped, with copper hook and thimble,
probably for the boat's sheet.

RELICS SEEN IN,LAT. 69 deg. 09 Lon. 99 deg. 24 W.
NOT BROUGHT AWAY. 30TH M:I.Y, 1859.
A large .beat,'Mehsuring. 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. N6l: API". 184: It appears
that the fore part of the stem has ;teen: cut away, probably
to reduce weight, and part of the letters and
,figures
moved.; An oak sledge under tie heat; k 23 ft. 4 in. lon,
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 quart-
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 irotts a broken saveyleather cover
of sextant case, a ,chain- cable punch, 'silk handkerchief
(black, white, and coloured); towels; sponge, toothbrush,
hair comb, it mackintosh, gun cover (marked, in- paint
"A. 12"), twine, files, knives, a small worsted work-
slipper, listed, with calfskin, bound with red ribbon ; a great
quantity, of clothing, and a wolfskin robe; part of a boat's
Sail of o." 8 canvas, whale line rope with yellow mark, and
white line with red mark; 24 iron stancheons, .9i inches
high, for Supporting a weather cloth round•the boat; a
stancheon tot supporting a.ridge pole at heiglitof three feet
nine inches above the gunwale,; three small axes.
RELICS POUND ABOUT ROSS' CAIRN, POINT VICTORY,
MAY
.AND J UNE; 1859, BROUGHT AWAY.
A six-inch disc circle, by Robinson, marked 122. A
case of medicines consisting of 25 small bottles,ia cannister
of pills, ointment, plaster; oiled silk, Ake. A two-foot rule,
two joints of the cleaning rod of a gun, and a small copper
spindle, prObably for dog ianes of boats.. The Circular
brass plate broke out of a wooden gun easel- and engraved
C. H:'Ormer, R.N. The field glass and German silver top
of a two-foot telescope, a coffee cannieter, a piece of a brass
curtain rod. The retold tin—the record, dated 25th April,
1848, has been taken out. A. six-inch double frame sexes
tent, on which the owner's name is engraved, Frederick
Hernby,
FOUND IN A SMALL CAIRN. oN TIIE SOUTHSIDHOF
BACK BAY.
A tin record case and record. The latter has been taken
out.
SEEN ABOUT ROSS CAIRN, POINT VICTORY, NOT BROUGHT
AWAY.
Four sets of boat cooking apparatus complete, iron hoops,
4 feet of a copper lightninc, conductor. Hollow brass cur=
tain rod, three-quarters of an inch diameter. 3 pickaxes, 1
shovel, old 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 flat-side, three
boat hook staves, strips of copper, a 9 inch single block
strap; a piece of rape and. spun yarn. Ainoirst the cloth-
ing was found a stocking marked " W. Green," and a
fragment ofone Marked JW.S."
RELIC.; OBTAINED AT THE NORTHERN CAIRN, NEAR
CAPE FELIX, MAY 1859.
Fragments of a boat's ensign in a bag,metak lid of a pow-
derffask, 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 are- natked 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 Tanister. •
ARTICLES 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, fliree small canvas tents,
under which lay bearskin; blankets, and fragments of blan-
kets, two blanket frocks, several old mitsrstockings, gloves,
pilot cloths, and box of cloth jackets and trowsers, 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 FROM THE BOOTIIIIN ESQUIMAUX,
NEAR THE MAGNETIC POLE, IN MARCH AND APRIL,

1859.
Seven knives made by the natives out of nmterials 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 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 used 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
fart of a light boat's sail, it measured (before being partially
rounded to adapt it to its present use) about 1 by 1
inches, is made of English oak, and upon the'side has been
painted white over green. The spear head is of steel,
rivetted 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 ho 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 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 therefore would not havethe 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 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 lasi expe-
dition these people must have been almostdestitute 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:HUT IN L1T.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 31 in. ; width, 9 in. ; two brass hinges remained at-
tached to it.
RELICS OBTAINED FROM THE ESQUIMAUX NEAR CAPE
NORTON, UPON THE EAST COAST OF KING WILLIAM
ISLAND, in May, 1859.
2 table spoons, upon one is scratched W. W, on the
other W 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 Fairolme
crest and motto ; handle of a dessert knife, into which had
been inserted a razor (since broken off) by Millikin, Strand;
buttons, wood, and iron were here in abundance, but as
enoughuf these 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 llerschel, May, 1859.—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 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 3/ 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. There was abundance of wood fashioned into smaller
articles.
CONTENTS OF BOAT'S MEDICINE CHEST.
; One bottle labelled zinzib R. pule, full; do. spirit
hect , empty; do. mur. hydrarg, seven-eighths full; do.
01. caryphyll,i one fifth full; do. ipec. P. co., full; do.
01. ntednoth..opii.p.o,leivmape,tyfo; do. tint. opii. caraph., three-
; do. lig. ammon fort, three-quarters
full;
quarters full; do. vin. sem. colch, full ; do. do., quarter
do. Magnes Carb.,
; full ; do. calomel, full (broken) ; do. hydrarg. hit. oxyd ,
full; do. polo. gregor, full (broken) ;
full; do. camphor, full; two bottles tine. tolut. (each quarter
full); one bottle ipec. R. pulvr., full; do. jalap R. pulvr.,
do. (not labelled) tinct. opii, three-quarter full ; one box
(apparently) purgative pills, full ;
do. ointment, shrunk ;
do. emp. adhesiv., full; one probang, one pen wrapped up
in lint, one lead pencil, one pewter syringe, two small tubes
(test) wrapped up
in lint, one farthing, bandages, oil, silk,
lint, thread.
(Signed) DAVID WALKER, M.D.,
Surgeon to Expedition.
Fox, Port Kennedy June 1469 • '
Enclosed are copies of original papers found by
Captain 111‘Clintock on Prince of Wales' Island
:
"- of May, 1847.
" Her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror win-