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The rivets are almost all made out of copper nails, such as would be 

 found in a copper-fastened boat, but those which have been exa- 

 mined do not bear the Government mark. It is probable that most 

 of the boats of the 'Erebus' and 'Terror' were built by contract, 

 and therefore would not have the broad arrow stamped upon their 

 iron and copper work. One small knife appears to have been a sur- 

 gical instrument. A large knife obtained in April bears some 

 marking, such as a sword or a cutlass might have. The man who 

 sold it said he bought it from another, who picked it up on the land 

 where the ship was driven ashore by the ice, and where the white 

 people had thrown it away ; it was then about as long as his arm. 

 This was the first information he received of one of the ships having 

 drifted on shore. One knife and one file are stamped with the 

 broad arrow. The handles are variously composed of oak, ash, pine, 

 mahogany, elm, and bone. The spoons and forks were readily sold 

 , for a few needles each, also the buttons, which they wore as orna- 

 ments on their dresses. Bows and arrows were readily exchanged 

 for knives. Previously to the stranding on the neighbouring shore 

 of the last expedition these people must have been almost destitute 

 of wood or iron. Some of them had even got only bone knives and 

 spear-points. Some of their sledges were seen, consisting of two 

 rolls of sealskin, flattened and frozen, to serve as runners, and con- 

 nected together by cross bars of bones. Many more knives, bows, 

 and buttons, similar to those brouglit away, might have been ob- 

 tained, but no personal or important relics. 



Seen in a Snow Hut in lat. 70.^° deg. N., 20th of April, 

 1859, not brought away : — 



Two wooden shovels, one of them made of mahogany board, some 

 spear-handles and a bow of English wood, a deal case which might 

 have served for a telescope or barometer. Its external dimensions 

 were : — length, 3 ft. 1 in. ; depth, 3i in. ; width, 9 in. ; two brass 

 hinges remained attached to it. 



Eelics obtained from the Esquimaux near Cape Norton, upon 

 the East Coast of King William Island, in May, 1859 : — 

 Two tablespoons ; upon one is scratched " W. W.," on the other 

 " W. G. ;" these bear the Franklin crest ; two table forks, one bear- 

 ing the Franklin crest, the other is also crested, probably Captain 

 Crozier's ; silversmith's name is " I. West ;" two teaspoons, one en- 

 graved " A. M. D." (A. M'Donald), the other bears the Fairholme 

 crest and motto ; handle of a dessert knife, into which had been 

 inserted a razor (since broken off) by Millikin, Strand ; buttons, 

 wood and iron, were here in abundance, but as enough of these had 

 already been obtained no more were purchased. 



Taken out of some deserted snow-huts near here, some scraps of 



