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APPENDIX. 



Steubenville and Indiana Railroad Company. 

 Telegraph Company between Cincinnati and New York. 

 Telegraph Company between New York and Philadelphia. 

 Telegraph Company between New York and New London. 

 Governor Bannerman, St. Johns, Newfoundland. 

 Converse O. Leach, United States Consul, St. John's, Newfoundland. 

 A. M. Mackay, Superintendent New York and Newfoundland Telegraph Company, 

 St. John's, Newfoundland. 



Robert Winton, editor and proprietor "Daily News,'' St. John's, Newfoundland. 

 Francis Winton, editor and proprietor "Day Book," St. John's, Newfoundland. 

 Mrs. S. Knight, of the Knight House, St. John's, Newfoundland. 

 Mrs. Warrington, of the Union Hotel, St. John's, Newfoundland. 

 J. C. Toussaint, of the Hotel de Paris, St. John's, Newfoundland. 

 Kenneth M'Lea, merchant, St. John's, Newfoundland. 



III. 



Danish Currency. — Page 52. 

 The Danish dollar, at the time of writing (1860), was worth fifty-five cents of 

 American money. 



The following is the interpretation of the Danish of the six shilling note on page 54 : 



"No, 6 shillings C[ountry] m[oney], 2450. 

 "This order is good for Six Shillings Country Currency at the Commercial Towns 

 in Greenland, Copenhagen, 1856. 



* * * * 



" Noted [in the Registry or Records], 



iij^ * * * * 



One of these shillings is worth about half a cent. U. S. federal money. 



IV. 



Pim-ma-in, or Chiefs. — Page 101. 

 "Pim-ma-in" a term used in former times among the Innuits for the principal 

 man (or chief) among them. It is now obsolete, as there are no chiefs or rulers 

 among them. Every man is now on an equality one with another. 



V. 



Frohisher's " Gold."— Page 132. 

 The matter of the Frobisher "gold" or iron is sufficiently treated of in the body 

 of the work, on page 437. 



VI. 



The Wreck of the George Henry. — Page 145. 



The following account of the wreck of the George Henry appeared in a New Lon- 

 don journal shortly after the occurrence of the disaster to which it relates : 



"Captain Christopher B. Chapell, of Norwich Town, has arrived in the bark Mon- 

 ticello from Hudson's Bay, together with the mate and part of the crew of the bark 

 George Henry, of New London, which has been wrecked upon the Lower Savage Isl- 

 ands. She was forced upon the rocks the 16th of July, by strong tides in calm weath- 

 er, heavily beset by large floes of ice, which, for the lack of wind, rendered the vessel 

 unmanageable, and she became a total wreck. After saving a great quantity of pro- 

 visions, stores, and other valuable property, Captain Chapell left the island, with his 



