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different kinds of wood, such as could uot be obtained from a boat 

 — teak or African oak. 



Found lying about the skeleton, 9 miles eastward of Cape Her- 

 schel, May, 1859 : — The tie of black silk neckerchief ; fragments of a 

 double-breasted blue cloth waistcoat, with covered silk buttons, and 

 edged with braid ; a scrap of a coloured cotton shirt, silk covered 

 buttons of blue cloth great-coat, a small clothes-brush, a horn pocket- 

 comb, a leathern pocket-book, which fell to pieces when thawed and 

 dried ; it contained 9 or 10 letters, a few leaves apparently blank ; 

 a sixpence, date 1831 ; and a half-sovereign, dated 1844. 



Articles seen among the natives at Cape Norton, not purchased ; 

 ;— Bows made of wood, knives, uniform and plain buttons, a sledge 

 made of two long pieces of hard wood. 



From beside an Esquimaux stone-mark, on the east side of 

 Montreal Island : — Part of a preserved-meat tin, painted red ; part of 

 the rim of some strong copper case or vessel ; pieces of iron hoop, 

 two pieces of flat iron, an iron hook bolt, a piece of sheet copper. 



Articles seen about a snow-hut near Point Booth, not purchased : 

 —Eight or 10 fir poles, varying from 5 feet to 10 feet in length, the 

 stoutest being 2^ inches in diameter. Two wooden snow shovels 

 about 31 feet long, and made of pieces of plank painted white or 

 pale yellow ; it occurred to me that the pieces of plank might have 

 been the bottom boards of a boat. There was abundance of wood 

 fashioned into smaller articles. 



Contents of Boat's Medicine Chest : — 



One bottle labelled as zinzib. E. pulv., full; ditto, spirit, rect., 

 em^Dty ; ditto, mur. hydrarg. seven-eighths full ; ditto, ol.caryphyll., 

 one-fifth full ; ditto, ipec. P. co., full ; ditto, ol. menth. pip., empty ; 

 ditto, liq. ammon. fort., three-quarters full ; ditto, ol. olivac, full ; 

 ditto, tinct. opii. camph., three-quarters full ; ditto, vin. sem. colch., 

 fuU ; ditto, quarter full ; ditto, calomel, full (broken) ; ditto, hydrarg. 

 hit. oxyd., full; ditto, pulv. gregor., full (broken); ditto, magnes. 

 carb., full ; ditto, camphor, fuU ; two bottles tine, tolut , each quarter 

 full ; one bottle ipec. E. pulv., full ; ditto, jalap E. pulv., full ; 

 ditto, scammon. pulv., full ; ditto, quinac bisulph. empty ; ditto 

 (not labelled), tinct. opii., three-quarters fuU ; one box (apparently) 

 purgative pills, full ; ditto, ointment, shrunk ; ditto, emp. adhesiv., 

 full ; one probang, one pen wrapped up in lint, one lead pencil, one 

 pewter syringe, two small tubes (test) wrapped up in lint, one 

 farthing, bandages, oil silk, lint, thread. 



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