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as no particulars of her loss were current among the sealers, except that 
she was a teak built ship, and that portions of the skeletons of her crew 
were found and buried upon Green Island (Facile Harbour), and were sup- 
posed from the smallness of their stature to be Lascars, No name of the 
vessel, or further information relative to her loss, was known on the coast. 
Thomas Shannon is of opinion that the pieces of wreck brought up to this 
port from the Haast, are a portion of a Netherland built vessel, and as to 
her construction, he assures me that during the early time he was on the 
coast of New Zealand, he never heard of or saw any vessel of the same 
construction as the one after which inquiries have been made. I may state 
that in 1866-67 there was a portion of a ship’s figure-head laying in the 
bush about seven miles south of the position of the wreck, and near to an 
old camping-ground or village of the Maoris on the south side of the Waita 
River, but which, I have been told, was since burned by the people who 
followed the rushes in the Haast district ; the figure-head was a representa- 
tion of a woman, but it had been much disfigured. 
Meanwhile the piece of wreck forwarded to Wellington has been examined 
by several nautical men, amongst whom were Commander Edwin, R.N., 
Captain Johnstone (Marine Board), Captain M‘Lean, s.s. ‘ Otago,” Captain 
M‘Intyre, and several others. The last-named gentleman started the idea 
that it much resembled and corresponded with the construction of the 
“Schomberg,” of Liverpool, wrecked on Moonlight Head, South Coast of 
Australia, in November, 1854. A piece of the same was forwarded to 
‘Captain M‘Lean, s.s. “ Otago,” taken by that gentleman to Melbourne, and 
examined by several gentlemen, amongst whom was the Inspector of Tele- 
graphs for Victoria, who had seen the remains of the ‘‘ Schomberg” only 
recently in the vicinity of Cape Otway. That gentleman at once pro- 
nounced it to be a portion of the wreckage at the Otway, and to be in as 
good preservation as any part he had seen. Captain M‘Lean at once sent 
the piece home to Britain to the builders of the “‘ Schomberg,’ Messrs. 
Hall, of Aberdeen, asking them their opinion as to its identity with the 
vessel in question, but no answer has yet been received. While this 
inquiry was going on at Wellington and Melbourne, I fortunately came 
across Mr. Andrew Murray’s able treatise on ‘‘ Ancient and Modern Ship- 
building,” published in 1861, and that gentleman in his work gives a 
detailed account of the construction of the “ Schomberg,” and, in expla- 
nation of the diagrams showing the fastenings, he points out the fact that 
the Messrs. Hall, of Aberdeen, were the first to use screw trenails in the 
fastenings of ships, and, upon a close comparison, I find that the thickness 
of planks, the position in which they are placed to each other, and, lastly, 
the fastenings, correspond exactly with what we find in the piece of wreck 
