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ed along it to the bluff facing the sea. As I looked down to the 

 base of the tongue on which I stood, I saw, wedged in between 

 two rocks, what appeared to be a stick of timber, about two feet 

 long and six inches square, very old in appearance. I called to 

 Koojesse, and directed him to examine it, as, from where I stood, 

 it was some twenty-five feet perpendicular to the bottom ; he hast- 

 ened down and around, and, on arriving at the supposed relic of 

 wood, said it was a stone. I was surprised and disappointed, and 

 then proceeded with my occupation of pacing off the trench. In 

 half a minute I heard Koojesse shout " Shev-eye-un /" (iron.) I 

 turned round, and saw that he had boldly mounted the steep bank 

 beneath me, using the sharp rocks as stepping-stones, and had his 

 hand resting on a piece of rusty iron just protruding from the 

 debris of stone that had been dug out of the trench, and thrown 

 up, making a bank. Koojesse continued shouting " Iron ! big 



iron ! Can't stir him !" 



I was soon on the spot, though 

 at considerable risk, and trying 

 to disengage the iron, but I could 

 not move it. After digging 

 around it, however, a few strong 

 one of fkobibheb's gold u pkoofs. " pulls started it. The rust of 

 (An iron relic of 1578.) three centuries had firmly ce- 



mented it to the sand and stones in which it had lain. 



This piece of iron* was of the same character as that found at 

 Tikkoon, less than one mile from Kodlunarn, and also as that ob- 

 tained on "Look-out" Island, Field Bay; and the origin of it, as 

 well as its significance, may be gathered from the following facts : 

 Of the one hundred men sent out from England with Frobisher 

 in 1578, the majority were " miners," sent for the express purpose 

 of digging for the rich ore of which Frobisher had carried speci- 

 mens home on his return from his second voyage, and which was 

 supposed to be very valuable. The miners made " proofs," as 

 they are called, in various parts of the regions discovered by him. 

 Some of these " proofs" are doubtless what I found, and they fur- 

 nish clear evidence, in connection with other circumstances noted 

 in the course of this narrative, that I was, when at Kodlunarn, on 

 the precise spot of Frobisher's " Countess of Warwick's Mine." 



* The same, together with a case of some of the other Frobisher relics which I 

 discovered and brought home, I sent to the British government early in the year 

 1863, through the Royal Geographical Society of London. 



