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No. III. 

 LIST OF RELICS OF THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION 



Brought to England In the ' Fox ' by Captain M'Clintock;. 



Kelics brought from tlie boat found in lat. 69° 08' 43" 



N., long. 99° 24' 42" W., upon the "West Coast of King 



William Island, May 30, 1859 :— 



Two double-barrelled guus, one barrel in each is loaded. Found 

 standing up against the side in the after part of the boat. 



A small Prayer Book ; cover of a small book of ' Family Prayers ;' 

 ' Christian Melodies,' an inscription within the cover to " G. G." 

 (Graham Gore ?) ; ' Vicar of Wakefield ;' a small Bible, interlined in 

 many places, and with numerous references written in the margin ; 

 a New Testament in the French language. 



Two table knives with white handles — one is marked " W. R. ;" 

 a gimlet ; an awl ; two iron stanchions, 9 inches long, for supporting 

 a weather cloth, which was round the boat. 



26 pieces of silver plate — 11 spoons, 11 forks, and 4 teaspoons ; 

 3 pieces of thin elmboard (tingles) for repairing the boat, and 

 measuring 11 inches by 6 inches, and 3-lOths inch thick. 



Piece of canvas : — Bristles for shoemaker's use, bullets, short clay 

 pipe, roll of waxed twine, a wooden button, small piece of a port-fire, 

 two charges of shot tied up in the finger of a kid glove, fragment of 

 a seaman's blue serge frock. Covers of a small Testament and Prayer 

 Book, part of a grass cigar-case, fragment of a silk handkerchief, 

 thread-case, piece of scented soap, three shot charges in kid glove 

 fingers, a belted bullet, a piece of silk pocket handkerchief. Two 

 pairs of goggles, made of stout leather and wire gauze, instead of 

 glass ; a sailmaker's palm, two small brass pocket compasses, a 

 snooding line rolled up on a piece of leather, a needle and thread 

 case, a bayonet scabbard altered into a sheath for a knife, tin water 

 bottle for the pocket, two shot pouches (full of shot). 



Three spring hooks of sword belts, a gold lace band, a piece of 

 thin gold twist or cord, a pair of leather goggles with crape instead 

 of glass ; a small green crape veil. 



Two small packets of blank cartridge in gi-een paper, part of a 

 cherry-stick pipe stem, piece of a port-fire, a few copper nails, a 

 leather bootlace, a seaman's clasp-knife, two small glass stoppered 

 bottles (full), three glasses of spectacles, part of a broken pair of 

 silver spectacles, German silver pencil-case, a pair of silver (?) 

 forceps, such as a naturalist might use for holding or seizing small 

 insects, &c. ; a small pair of scissors rolled up in blank paper, and 



