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on board out of a 2Ibs. preserved meat-tin (and marked ‘“ W. Mark,”) a 
small deal box for gun-wadding. The heavy iron-work of a large boat, part 
of a canvas tent, part of an oar sawed longitudinally, and a blanket nailed to 
its flat side, three boat hook staves, strips of copper, a 9-inch single block strap- 
ped, a piece of rope and spun yarn. Amongst the clothing was found a stock- 
ing marked “ W,”’ green, and a fragment of one marked “ W.S.” 
Relics obtained from the Boothian Esquimaur, 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 spearhead and staff (the latter was 
broken offy, two files, a large spoon or scoop, the handle of pine or bone, the 
bowl of musk or ox horn, six silver spoons and forks, the property of Sir John 
Franklii, Lieutenants H.de Vescomte, and Fairholme, A. M’Donald, Assis- 
tant Surgeon, and Lieut. 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 at- 
tainments at o medical examination in Edinburgh, April, 1838, some bows 
and arrows, in which wood, iron, or copper has been used in the construction— 
of no other interest. 
Relies obtained from: the Esquimaur near Cape Norton, upon the East 
Coast of King William’s Island, in May, 1859. 
Two table-spoons, upon one is scratched W W,on the other W G; these 
bear the, Franklin crest. Two table-forks, one bearing the Franklin crest ; 
the other is also crested, probably Captain Crozier’s ; silversmith’s name is I, 
West. Two teaspoons, one engraved A. M. D. (A- McDonald); the other 
bears the Fairholme crest and motto; handle of a desert knife, into which had 
been inserted a razor (since broken off) by Millikin, Strand ; buttons, wood, and 
iron were in abundanco ; but as enough of these had already been obtained, 
no more were purchused. 
Found lying about the skeleton, nine miles eastward of Cape Herschel, May, 
1859.—The tie of a black silk handkerchief, fragments of a double-breasted 
blue cloth waistcoat with covered silk, buttons, and edged with braid ; a scrap 
of a colored cotton shirt, silk covered buttons of blue cloth great coat, a small 
clothes, brush, a horn pocket-comb, a leather pocket-book, which fell to pieces 
when thawed and dried; it contained nino or ten letters, a few leaves appa- 
rently blank. A sixpence, date 1831, and a half-sovereign, date 1844. 
Enclosed are Copies of Original Papers found by Captain M’Clintock on 
aided Paes of Wales's Tend @ 
_ of May, 1847. 
‘“ Her Majesty’s ships Erebus and Terror wintered in the ice in lat. 70 deg. 
5 min., lon. 98 deg. 23 min. W. . 
“ Having wintered in 1845-6 at Beechey Island, in lat. 74 deg. 43 min. 28 
sec. N., lon. 91 deg. 39 min. 15 sec. W., after ascending Wellington Channel 
to lat. 77 deg., and returning by the west side of Cornwallis Island. 
“ Sin Joan Franxuin, Commanding the Expedition. 
All well. ; f 
“ Whoever finds this paper is requested to forward it to the Secretary of the 
Admiralty, London, with a note of the time and place at which it was found, or, 
