418 Franklin Relics Brought from King William^ s Land. iJuue, issg. 



zie Eiver. As it was, I had to be satisfied with taking' upon our sledges about 

 125 pounds total weight of relics froui natives about King William's Land. Some 

 of these I will enumerate : 



1. A portion of one side (several planks and ribs fast together) of a boat, 

 clinker-built and copper-fastened. This part of a boat is of the one found near 

 the boat found by McClintock's party. 2. A small oak sledge-runner, reduced 

 from the sledge on which the boat rested. 3. Part of the mast of the Northwest 

 Passage ship. 4. Chronometer-box, with its number, name of the maker, and the 

 Queen's broad arrow engraved upon it. 5. Two long heavy sheets of copper, 

 three and four inches wide, with countersunk holes for screw-nails. On these 

 sheets, as well as on most everything else that came from the !Rorthwest Pas- 

 sage ship, are numerous stamps of the Queen's broad arrow. 0. Mahogany writ- 

 ing-desk, elaborately finished and bound in brass. 7. Many pieces of silver-plate, 

 forks, and spoons, bearing crests and initials of the owners. 8. Parts of watches. 

 9. Knives and very many other things which you, Mr. Grinnell, and others in- 

 terested in the fate of the Franklin Expedition will t-ake a sad interest in inspect- 

 ing on their arrival in the States. One entire skeleton I have brought to the 

 United States.* 



The same year that the Erehns and Terror icere abandoned one of them consum- 

 mated the Great ISforthwest Passage, having five men aboard. The evidence of the 

 exact number is circumstantial. Everything about this Korthwest Passage ship 

 was in complete order. It Avas found by the Ook-joo-lik natives near O'Reilly 

 Island, lat. 08° 30' N., long. 99° W., early in the spring of 1849, frozen in the midst 

 of a floe of only one winter's formation. 



Unwilling to leave any means untried which mig-ht add to what 



information he had gained on King William's Land, at Todd's Isles, 



and on the return journey, Hall kept up numerous inquiries of In- 



nook-poo-zhee-jook, even after the date of this letter to Mr. Grinnell. 



An example of his conversations now held, will show his manner of 



questioning, in order to elicit hopefully the truth from this native of 



whose accuracy he sometimes speaks distrustfully. In Book B, for- 



* After much hesitancy as though he might have done wrong in this, some time after his 

 return, Hall jjlaccd the carefully-prcstTvcd remains in the charge of Mr. Brevoort, of Brooklyn, 

 who transferred them to Admiral Inglefield, R. N., to be forwarded to England. Subsequently 

 (by the i>lug of a tooth) the skeleton was identified as the remains of Lieutenant Vescoute, of 

 the Erebus. (See Geographical Magazine, London, for April, 1878.) 



