No. III. APPENDIX. 369 



Articles noticed about the North Cairn, not brought away : — 



Fragments of two broken bottles, several pieces of broken basins 

 or cups, blue and white delfware, hoops of marine's water keg, small 

 iron hoops, fragments of white line, spun yarn, canvas, and twine ; 

 three small canvas tents, under which lay a bearskin and fragments 

 of blankets ; two blanket frocks, several old mits, stockings, gloves, 

 pilot cloth and box cloth jackets and trousers, large shot, piece of 

 tobacco and broken pipe, metal part of powder-case, top of tin 

 canister, marked " cheese," preserved-potato tin, feathers of ptarmi- 

 gan, and salt-meat bones. 



Seen near Cape Maria Louisa :— 



Part of a drift tree, white spruce fir, 18 feet long, 10 inches in 

 diameter ; it appeared to have but recently (i. e. since thrown on 

 the coast) been sawed longitudinally down the centre, and one-half 

 of it removed. 



Eelics obtained from the Boothian Esquimaux, near the 

 Magnetic Pole, in March and April, 1859 : — 



Seven knives made by the natives out of materials obtained from 

 the last expedition, one knife without a handle, one spear-head and 

 staff (the latter has broken off), two files ; a large spoon or scoop, the 

 handle of pine or bone, the bowl of musk-ox horn ; six silver spoons 

 and forks, the property of Sir John Franklin, Lieutenants H. D. 

 Vescomte and Fairholme, A. M'Donald, Assistant-Surgeon, and 

 Lieutenant E. Couch (supposed from the initial letter T and crest a 

 lion's head) ; a small portion of a gold watch-chain, a broken piece 

 of ornamental work apparently silver gilt, a few small naval and 

 other metal buttons, a silver medal obtained by Mr. M'Donald as a 

 prize for superior attainments at a medical examination in Edin- 

 burgh April, 1838 ; some bows and arrows, in which wood, iron, or 

 copper has been used in the construction — of no other interest. 



Eemarks upon these Articles, 

 The spear-statf measures 6 feet 3 inches in length, and appears 

 to have been part of a light boat's gunwale : it measured (before 

 being partially rounded to adapt it to its present use) about 1 J by 

 1| inches, is made of English oak, and upon the side has been 

 painted white over green. The spear-head is of steel, riveted to 

 two pieces of hoop, with bone between, and lashed on to the staif. 

 The rivets are of copper nails. The native who sold it said he 

 himself got it from the boat in the Fish River. Another spear of 

 the same kind was seen. The knives are made either of iron or 

 steel, riveted to two strips of hoop, between which the handle of 

 wood is inserted, and rivets passed through, securing them together. 



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