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tickes. In the burying grounds of Sir Thomas 

 Rowe's Welcome they found many corpses, wrap- 

 ped in deer-skins, and laid under stones with their 

 heads to the west, the longest of which, Fox says, 

 was not above four feet long. The bodies were 

 enclosed with planks nine or ten feet long and 

 four inches thick, a whole boat load of which they 

 carried off for fire wood. With the bodies were 

 deposited bows, arrows, lances, darts, and other 

 implements carved in bone. Many of the darts 

 were lieadcd with iron, but one had a head of cop- 

 per, which makes him conclude that some Chris- 

 tians might have been there before him. 



From the Welcome Fox stood again to the 

 southward, looking into Hubert's Hope, and the 

 day light, he says, enabled him to see the bottom 

 of '' vainely Hoapt Hulbert." On the 9th August 

 he goes into Port Nelson, for reasons assigned in 

 long and minute detail, but not of sufficient 

 interest or importance to transcribe. Here they 

 found a cross which had been erected by Sir Tho- 

 mas Button, still bearing his name. From Nelson's 

 River Fox stood across the bay to the south-east- 

 ward, and on the 29th August fell in with Captain 

 James, on board whose ship he went and " was 

 well entertained and feasted ;" for which, however, 

 he makes but a scurvy kind of return, speaking 

 thus slightingly of his brother navigator : " The 

 gentleman (meaning James) could discourse of 

 arte, as observations, calculations, and the like, and 



