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of 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, having 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 ; a small, roughly made copper 

 apparatus for cooking ; some brimstone matches. 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, was : — 



A pickaxe, with broken handle : brought away an empty tea or 

 coffee canister. 



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 marine's water keg, small iron 

 hoops, fragments of white-line, spunyarn, canvas, and twine ; three 

 small canvas tents, under which lay a bearskin and fragments of 

 blankets ; two blanket frocks, several old mittens, stockings, gloves, 

 pilot cloth and box cloth jackets and trousers, 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 dia- 

 meter ; 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 Boothian Esquimaux, near the 

 Magnetic Pole, in March and April, 1859 : — 



Seven knives made by the natives out of materials obtained from the 

 lost expedition, one knife without a handle, one spear-head and staff 

 (the latter has broken off), two files ; a large spoon or scoop, the 

 handle of pine or bone, the bowl of musk-ox horn ; six silver spoons 

 and forks, the property of Sir John Franklin, Lieutenants H. D, 

 Le Vesconte, and Fairholme, A. M 'Donald, Assistant Surgeon, and 

 Lieutenant E. Couch (supposed from the initial letter C and crest, a 

 lion's head) ; a small portion of a gold watch-chain, a broken piece of 

 ornamental work apparently silver gilt, 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, 



