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less of this enthusiastic spirit, and cheerful obedience to every com- 
mand, our small number—twenty-three in all—would not have sufficed 
for the successful performance of so great a work. 
F. L. M’Cutvrock, Captain, R. N., 
Commanding the Final Searching Expedition. 
The Yacht Fox, R.Y.8., off Isle of Wight, 
Sept. 21, 1859. 
This letter is followed by avery minute detail of the relics, &c., discovered 
at various points of search ; some of these were brought home, and others were 
left. Our readers will be enabled to judge of the nature of these relics by the 
few appended examples :— 
Relics brought from the Boat found in lat. 69 deg. 8 43 N., lon. 99 deg. 24 42 
W., upon the West Coast of King William's Island, May 30, 1859. 
‘wo double-barrelled guns—one barrel in each is loaded. Found standing 
up against the side in the after-part of the boat. 
In one parcel.—A_ small Prayer-book, cover of a small book of '‘ Family 
Prayers ;”? “ Christian Melodies,” an inseription within the cover to “G. G.,” 
(Graham Gore ?); ‘“ Vicar of Wakefield ;” a small Bible, interlined in many 
places, and with numerous references written in the margin; a New Testa- 
ment in the French language. 
Tied togetber.—Two table knives with white handles—one is marked “ W. 
R.;” a gimlet, an awl, two iron stancheons, nine inches long, for supporting a 
weather cloth, which was round the boat. 
Tied together.—Twenty-six pieces .of silver plate—eleven spoons, eleven 
forks, and four tea-spoons, three pieces of thin elm board (tingles) for repairing 
the boat, and measuring eleven by six inches, and three-tenths inch thick. 
All wrapped up in a piece of canvas.—Bristles for shoemakers’ use, bullets, 
short clay pipe, roll of waxed twine, a wooden button, small piece of a port 
fire, two charges of shot, tied up in the finger of a kid glove, tied up in a frag- 
ment of a seaman’s blue surge frock, &c., &c. 
Relics found about Ross Cairn, on Point Victory, May and June, 1859, 
brought away. 
A six-inch diss circle, by Robinson, marked “TI 222? A case of medicines, 
consisting of twenty-five small bottles, canister of pills, ointment, plaster, oiled 
silk, &c. A two-foot rule, two joints of the cleaning-rod of a gun, and a small 
copper spindle, probably for dog-vanes of boats. The circular brass plate 
broke out of a wooden gun case, and engraved “C.H. Ormer, R.N.” The 
field glass and German silver top of a two-foot telescope, a coffee canister, a 
iece of a brass curtain rod. The record tin—the record dated 25th April, 
848, has been taken out. A six-inch double frame sextant, on which the 
owner’s name is engraved, “ Frederie Hornby, R.N.” 
Seen about Ross Cairn, Point Victory, not brought away. 
Four sets of boat-cooking apparatus complete, iron hoops, four feet of a 
copper lightning conductgr. Hollow brass curtain rod three-quarters of an 
inch in diameter, three pickaxes, one shovel, old canvas, a pile of warm cloth- 
ing, blankets two feet high, two tin canteens stamped ‘89 Co,, Wm. Hedge, 
88 Co., Wm. Heather,” and a third one not marked. A small panniken made 
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