A Wooden Ball of Unknown Origin

Abstract

ON the shore of the island of Hadod, latitude 68° 40′ about, in Vesteraalin, north of Lofoten, there was found, probably in the autumn of 1897, a wooden ball, 4½ centimetres in diameter, covered by a thin layer of gum. The ball is of fine workmanship, and just able to float in the water. Circles are engraved upon four parts, and form small rhumbs over the whole surface; and on two places there is engraved with Latin Majuscles the name Melfort. Perhaps some of your readers can say from whence this ball has come. I am writing to the man who has the ball now, to ask him to send it to me.