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as come in contact with tlie observer's hand were 

 neatly covered with thin leather to prevent 

 frost-bite in severe weather. 



The clothing left by the retreating crews oi 

 the ' Erebus ' and ' Terror ' formed a huge heap 

 four feet high ; every article was searched, but 

 the pockets were empty, and not one of all 

 these articles was marked, — indeed sailors' warm 

 clothing seldom is. Two canteens, the property 

 of marines, were found, one marked "88 C°. 

 Wm. Hedges," and the other "89 C\ Wm. 

 Hether." A small pannikin made out of a two- 

 pound preserved-meat tin had scratched on it 

 " W. Mark." 



When continuing my homeward march, and, 

 as nearly as I could judge, 2h or 2| miles to the 

 north of Point Victory, I saw a few stones placed 

 in line, as if across the head of a tenting place 

 to afford some shelter ; here it was I think that 

 Lieutenant Gore deposited the record in May, 

 1847, which was found in 1848 by Lieutenant 

 Irving, and finally deposited at Point Victory. 

 Some scraps of tin vessels were lying about, 

 but whether they had been left by Sir James 

 Ross's party in May, 1830, or by the Franklin 

 Expedition in 1847 or 1848, is uncertain.* 



* It is a remarkable circumstance that when, in 1830, Sir James 

 Ross discovered Point Victory, he named two points of land, then 



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