254 OPINION ON THE INFORMATION. 



1 case, pocket chronometer, silver-gilt, and dial. 



1 small silver pencil-case. 



1 piece, silver tube ; part of a catheter, I believe. (J. R.) 



1 piece, some optical instrument 



1 old gold cap -band. 



1 surgeon's scalpel. 



Several sovereigns (two), shillings (four), and half-crowns (two). 



2 pieces (about seven inches), gold watch-chain. 

 2 leaves of the Student's Manual 



1 surgeon's knife. 



2 common knives. 



1 woman's knife, or cobbler's. 



1 pocket compass box. 



1 ivory handle of table-knife, marked " Hickey." 



1 small narrow tin case, marked " Fowler." (?) 



1 do. do. no top, marked "W. M." 



Sundry other articles of little consequence. 



1 piece of flannel under-vest, marked P. D. V. 1845. 



1 albata plate table-spoon. 



I have, etc. 



(Signed) JOHN KAE, C.F. 



Commanding Arctic Expedition. 

 Repulse Say, July, 1854. 



No man can for an instant imagine that the statements 

 so very distinctly given by Dr. Rae are other than the 

 result of his opinion, founded on his most anxious and 

 untiring efforts to arrive at the truth. But I can clearly 

 imagine that his anxiety to render the questions of his 

 interpreter pertinent has led him to afford the wily Es- 

 quimaux a view of his purpose; and they, fearing punish- 

 ment, have endeavoured to misdirect him from the true 

 position where the disaster occurred. 



Where the collective treasure of those two vessels was 

 found, there these same Esquimaux had been. But 

 where the forty bodies may be discovered is, I fear, 

 remote from the proper place for search; the fear of 



