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B RICH AM ON HA IV All AN FEA THER WORK. 



Bloxam was naturalist and his uncle chaplain (1824-1825). The cloak is in fairly 

 good condition although somewhat faded, and worn so as to show in places the tiny red 

 feather often placed at the base of the feather of the 00 to simulate the orange of the 

 more prized-raamo; hence a mottled appearance in the yellow portions of the cloak. 

 Through the kindness of Mr. A. R. Bloxam we are furnished with a colored drawing 

 of the cloak and very complete and careful measurements: the latter are as follows: 

 Weight 4 pounds 8 ounces; circumference of neck 2 feet 3 inches; depth in front 4 feet, 



FIG. 29. THE KLOXAM CLOAK, CHRISTCHURCH, N. Z. 



back 4 feet 5 inches; circumference around bottom 9 feet; lower yellow border 6 inches 

 in front, 7.5 inches at middle of back; yellow rhomb in the middle is 27.5 x 13.5 inches. 

 The yellow predominates leaving the design in red. 



THE LADY FRANKLIN CAPE. 



A very beautiful cape given by King Alexander Liholiho (Kamehameha IV) in 

 1861 to Lady Jane Franklin who in her tireless search for traces of her lost husband came 

 to these islands in hope of gathering from the hardy whalers then frequenting our harbors 

 in the winter season some tidings of possible relics of Sir John Franklin's expedition 

 that might be noticed in their summer visits to the Arctic seas. Public sympathy was 

 excited strongly and the king noted his by the gift of this much-prized cape.' On the 

 death of Lady Franklin (July 18, 1875) the cape was bequeathed to Mr. G. B. Austen 



' Thirty-nine relief expeditions were sent out from England and America in search of the missing expedition between 

 1847 and 1S57, five of them by Lady Franklin, the last of her sending the yacht Fox in 1857, Captain Leopold McClin- 

 tock, found proof of the utter destruction of the expedition, and it was learned that Franklin died June 1 1, 1847. 



