APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



List of Relics of the Franklin Expedition brought 

 to England in the * Fox,' and deposited in the 

 Museum of the United Service Institution. 



Relics brought from the boat found in lat. 69 8' 43" N., 

 long. 99 24' 42" W., upon the West Coast of King 

 William's Island, May 30, 1859 : — 



Two double-barrelled guns, one barrel in each is loaded. Found 

 standing up against the sides in the after part of the boat. 



A small Prayer-Book ; cover of a small book of ' Family Prayers ; ' 

 'Christian Melodies,' an inscription 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 margin ; a 

 New Testament in the French language. 



Two table knives with white handles — one is marked " W. R." (ward- 

 room) ; a gimlet ; an awl ; two iron stanchions, 9 inches long, for 

 supporting a weather cloth, which was round the boat. 



26 pieces of silver plate — 11 spoons, 11 forks, and 4 teaspoons ; 3 

 pieces of thin elmboard (tingles) for repairing the boat, and measuring 

 11 inches by 6 inches, and 3-ioths inch thick. 



Piece of canvas : — Bristles for shoemaker's use, bullets, short clay 

 pipe, roll of waxed twine, a wooden button, small piece of a port fire, 

 two charges of shot tied up in the finger of a kid glove, fragment of a 

 seaman's blue serge frock. Covers of a small Testament and Prayer- 

 Book, part of a grass cigar-case, fragment of a silk handkerchief, thread- 

 case, piece of scented soap, three shot charges in kid glove fingers, 

 a belted bullet, a piece of "feilk pocket-handkerchief. Two pairs of 

 goggles, made of stout leather, and wire gauze instead of glass ; a sail- 

 maker's palm, two small brass pocket compasses, a snooding line rolled 

 up on 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, two 

 shot pouches (full of shot). 



