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medicines, consisting of 25 small bottles, canister of pills, ointment, 

 plaster, oiled silk, &c. A 2-foot rule, two joints of the cleaning 

 rod of a gun, and two small copper spindles, probably for dog-vanes 

 of boats. The circular brass plate broken out of a wooden gun-case, 

 and engraved " C. H. Osmer, R.N." The field glass and German 

 silver top of a 2-foot telescope, a coffee canister, a piece of a brass 

 curtain rod. The record tin and the record, dated 25th of April, 

 1848. A 6-inch double frame sextant, on which the owner's name 

 is engraved, " Frederick Hornby, R.N." 



Found in a small cairn on the soutli side of Back Bay : — 



A tin record case and record. 



Seen about Eoss Caim, Point Victory, not brought away : — 



Four sets of boat's cooking apparatus complete, iron hoops, 4 feet 

 of a copper lightning conductor, hollow brass curtain-rod three- 

 quarters of an inch in diameter, 3 pickaxes, 1 shovel, old canvas, 

 a pile of warm clothing and blankets 4 feet high, 2 tin canteens 

 stamped " 89 Co., Wm. Hedges," " 88 Co., Wm. Heather," and a 

 third one not marked. A small pannikin, made on board out of a 

 2 lb. preserved-meat tin, and marked " W. Mark ;" a small deal box 

 for gim wadding, the heavy iron work of a large boat, part of a 

 canvas tent, part of an oar sawed longitudinally and a blanket nailed 

 to its flat side, three boat-hook staves, strips of copper, a 9-inch 

 single block strapped, a piece of rope and spunyarn. Among the 

 clothing was found a stocking marked " W," green, and a fragment 

 of one marked " W. S." 



EeHes obtained at the Northern Caim, near Cape Felix, May, 



1859 :— 



Fragments of a boat's ensign, metal lid of a powder-case, two eye 

 pieces of sextant tubes, brass button ; worsted glove, colours red, 

 white, and blue ; bung-stave of a marine's water keg or bottle, brass 

 ornaments to a marine's shako ; brass screw for screwing down lid, 

 also a copper hinge of the lid of powder-case ; a few patent wire 

 cartridges containing large shot ; part of a pair of steel spectacles, 

 glass being replaced by wood, having a narrow slit in it ; two small 

 rib bones, probably out of salt pork ; six or eight packets of needles ; 

 small flannel cartridge containing an ounce of damaged powder ; a 

 small, roughly made copper apparatus for cooking ; some brimstone 

 matches. Piece of white paper folded up found in the North Caim, 

 two pike-heads, narrow strip of white paper, foxmd under one of the 

 tent places ; their tent places were mthin a few yards of the caim. 



Beside a small caim, about three miles north of Point Victory, 

 was a pickaxe, with broken handle ; brought away an empty tea or 

 coffee canister. 



