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Delighted with my discoveries, and gathering up as many relics 

 as I could carry, placing them in my old stockings, mittens, hat, 



FBOBISHEK. KELICS IN MY OLD STOCKINGS. 



and every thing that would hold them securely, I labeled each 

 article, and rejoined the boat, immediately afterward departing on 

 our way for " home." That the reader may know the feelings 

 with which I left this portion of my work, I here make a brief ex- 

 tract from my diary, hastily written on the spot : 



" As I had my hand upon the iron relic after having unearth- 

 ed it and seen what it was, like a flash the whole of the circum- 

 stances flew across my mind — my determination before starting to 

 induce my native crew to stop with me at Kodlunarn ; the propo- 

 sal while making the transit from Niountelik to Kodlunarn ; their 

 willing acceptance ; the search, and finding of interesting relics ; 

 my calling to Koojesse ; his response ; his descending to look at 

 what I thought to be wood ; its proving to be a stone ; Koojesse's 

 mounting by an unexpected and venturesome way, thus finding 

 the iron relic where it had lain undisturbed for three centuries ; 

 God blessing me in making me the instrument in determining 

 the exact facts of what has remained a mystery to the civilized 

 world for so long. Now it will be known throughout all the en- 

 lightened nations of the earth where Frobisher did attempt to es- 

 tablish the colony which Queen Elizabeth sent here in 1578." 



That night we reached the termination of the high land below 

 Sharho, and encamped* till the next morning. 



Our passage on September 26th was made with some difficulty, 

 owing to the heavy sea that prevailed. A moderate gale, or even 



* Our twenty-sixth encampment was in lat. 62° 38' N., long. 65° 02' W. 



