UPPER FLOOR. 
FIRST ROOM. 
The ceiling of this room, representing the fall of 
Phaeton, was painted by Charles de la Fosse. 
The upright cases round the room contain a series of ar¬ 
tificial Curiosities from the less civilized parts of the world 
Case 1. Esquimaux dresses, from Winter Island ; a 
whalebone net, used by the Esquimaux for laying under 
their beds; a wooden bowl; a cup and spoon made of 
the horns of the musk ox ; a bone ornament, from Sa¬ 
vage Island ; some Esquimaux arms ; a small basket; a 
pair of eye-shades formed of bone ; a bow-string ; a cu¬ 
linary vessel and lamp, cut out of stone. Over the Cases 
is placed a sledge from Baffin’s Bay, which, together with 
the rest of these articles, was brought to England by 
Capt. Sir Edward Parry, in 1822. 
Case 2. Esquimaux dresses from Point Hope: a steers¬ 
man’s cap, from West Georgia ; men’s boots, and an Es¬ 
quimaux landing net, formed of whalebone, from Kotzebue 
Sound ; a band, worn as a maro , from Egmont Island ; a 
pair of woman’s boots, from Cape Thomson ; a dart 
thrower, from Point Barrow ; and a richly carved paddle, 
from Otaheite. 
Case 3. Various specimens of cloth, formed of the 
Paper Mulberry from the Sandwich Islands, some of them 
with stamped patterns ; a harpoon line, made of the skin 
of a Wallruss, and a sail of the intestines of the same ani¬ 
mal from Kotzebue Sound ; two large teeth of the Wall¬ 
russ, from Behring’s Straits ; a stone club used for bruis¬ 
ing nuts, and three fine mats, from Egmont Island ; a cap, 
ornamented with tufts of feather and hair ; several bows 
and arrows, some of the latter tipped with obsidian and 
bone, from California ; and a small harpoon, with a move- 
able tip, for spearing fish, from Point Barrow. 
On the sides of these Cases, near the door, are placed 
three spears from Tongataboo, a spear from the interior 
of Chili, and a paddle from Egmont Island. Over these 
cases are several other spears, arrows, and harpoons, 
from the Pacific Ocean. These articles and those in 
Cases No. 2 and 3, were collected during Capt. Beechey’s 
voyage of discovery, a.d. 1825—1828. 
