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in paint "A 12"), twine, files, knives; a small worsted-work slipper, 

 lined with calfskin, bound with red riband ; a great quantity of clothing, 

 and a wolfskin robe ; part of a boat's sail of No. 8 canvas, whale-line 

 rope with yellow mark, and white-line with red mark ; 24 iron 

 stanchions, 9 \ inches high, for supporting a weather cloth round the 

 boat ; a stanchion for supporting a ridge pole at a height of 3 ft. 9 in. 

 above the gunwale. 



Relics found about Ross's Cairn, on Point Victory, May and 

 June, 1859, brought away :— 



A 6-inch dip circle by Robinson, marked I 22. A case of medicines, 

 consisting of 25 small bottles, canister of pills, ointment, plaster, oiled 

 silk, &c. A 2-foot rule, two joints of the cleaning rod of a gun, and 

 two small copper spindles, probably for dog-vanes of boats. The cir- 

 cular brass plate broken out of a wooden gun-case, and engraved " C. 

 H. Osmer, R.N." The field glass and German silver top of a 2-foot 

 telescope, a coffee canister, a piece of a brass curtain rod. The record 

 tin, and the record dated 25th of April, 1848. A 6-inch double frame 

 sextant, on which the owner's name is engraved, "Frederick Hornby, 

 R.N." 



Found in a small cairn on the south side of Back Bay, 

 brought away: — 

 A tin l'ecord case and record. 



Seen about Ross's Cairn, Point Victory, not brought away : — 



Four sets of boat's cooking apparatus complete, iron hoops, 4 feet of 

 a copper lightning conductor, hollow brass curtain rod thi-ee-quarters of 

 an inch in diameter, 3 pickaxes, I shovel, old canvas, a pile of warm 

 clothing and blankets 4 feet high ; 2 tin canteens stamped " 89 Co., Wm. 

 Hedges," "88 Co., Wm. Heather," and a third one not marked. A 

 small pannikin, made on board out of a 2-lb. 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 strapped, a piece of rope, 

 and spunyarn. Among the clothing was found a stocking marked 

 " W. Green," and a fragment of one marked "W. S." 



Relics obtained at the Northern Cairn, near Cape Felix, 

 May, 1859 : — 



Fragments of a boat's ensign, metal lid of a powder case, two eye- 

 pieces of sextant tubes, brass button ; worsted glove, colours red, white, 

 and blue ; bung-stave of a marine's water keg or bottle ; brass ornaments 



