GATHERING RELICS. 



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furnace. I must not omit to say here that the Esquimaux wom- 

 en and children, and occasionally the men, aided me greatly while 

 on Kodlunarn, searching for and securing relics. The men were 

 obliged to be off, most of the time, sealing and hunting tuktoo for 

 our subsistence. 



Our tupics were close by the place that we called the "ship's 

 trench" (see Plan No. 1 on Chart Sheet), and occasionally, as I have 

 said, all hands were engaged with me in gathering Frobisher rel- 

 ics. One may get a good idea of our appearance when so engaged 

 from the accompanying engraving. 



The Author and his Innuit Company on Kodlunarn, or White Man's Island, gathering Frobisher 

 Relics, July 14th-17th, 1862. 



The following list is an extract from the catalogue that accom- 

 panied the Frobisher relics which I sent to the British govern- 

 ment, through the Eoyal Geographical Society of London, shortly 

 after my return to the States, and embraces twenty articles that 

 were inclosed in a small black- velvet-lined box, lettered J, which, 

 with all that I sent, have been deposited by the British govern- 

 ment in the Greenwich Hospital Museum, the same institution in 

 which the Franklin relics are to be seen. The unabridged list 

 comprised 136 separate parcels. 



