 Details of the reward were first reported in the Canadian press in August 2009.Following the expedition the King paid Weston a £30 reward, as a way of recompensing him for expenses incurred in his voyage to the New World.The reward was paid in 1500, based on examining a 500-year-old scroll which is a long made from the skins of more than 200 sheep, by using an ultraviolet light.