252 RELICS FOUND IN THE BOAT. Chap. XV. 



pockets and pocket-books, journals, or even names. Five 

 or six small books were found, all of them scriptural or 

 devotional works, except the ' Vicar of Wakefield.' One 

 little book, ' Christian Melodies,' bore an inscription upon 

 the title-page from the donor to G. G. (Graham Gore ?). 

 Another small book, ' A Manual of Private Devotion, by 

 C. J. Blomfield, D.D.,' bore on its title-page, " G. Back, 1 to 

 Graham Gore. May, 1845." A small Bible contained 

 numerous marginal notes, and whole passages underlined. 

 Besides these books, the covers of a New Testament and 

 Church of England Prayerbook were found. 



Amongst an amazing quantity of clothing there were 

 seven or eight pairs of boots of various kinds — cloth winter 

 boots, sea boots, heavy ankle boots, and strong shoes. I 

 noted that there were silk handkerchiefs — black, white, and 

 figured — towels, soap, sponge, tooth-brush, and hair-combs ; 

 macintosh gun-cover, marked outside with paint a 12, and 

 lined with black cloth. Besides these articles we found 

 twine, nails, saws, files, bristles, wax-ends, sail-makers' palms, 

 powder, bullets, shot, cartridges, wads, leather cartridge- 

 case, knives — clasp and dinner ones, needle and thread 

 cases, slow-match, several bayonet scabbards cut down into 

 knife-sheaths, two rolls of sheet-lead, and, in short, a 

 quantity of articles of one description and another truly 

 astonishing in variety, and such as, for the most part, 

 modern sledge-travellers in these regions would consider a 

 mere accumulation of dead weight, of little use, and very 

 likely to break down the strength of the sledge-crews. 



The only provisions we could find were tea and choco- 

 late ; of the former very little remained, but there were 

 nearly 40 pounds of the latter. These articles alone could 



1 The present Admiral Sir George Back, poor Graham Gore's former 

 Captain in the Arctic Expedition of 1836-7, when they both served on 

 board of H.M.S. 'Terror.' 



