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On our boat excursion we liad a combat with a large 

 walrus and her young one ; the young one was killed 

 easily, but the other escaped severely wounded. We 

 found it in the afternoon dead upon a floe, and brought 

 it on board. 



We climbed Cape Wynn, which was rather steep but 

 not very high, and found on the top a plateau of several 

 miles in circumference, quite free from snow, but scantily 

 covered with vegetation. Farther inland we came to a 

 valley watered by a glacier stream, and showing moss, 

 grass, and many green spots. Behind this valley the 

 mountains rose to a height of more than 1850 feet, but, 

 even here, the summits were perfectly free from snow, 

 which was only collected in the rifts. The snow-beds 

 and the falls of snow in East Greenland are much smaller 

 than we expected to find, and even less than in Spitz- 

 bergen, which lies so near. 



During our whole stay on this coast we only once, and 

 that in June 1870, saw the land with an entire covering 

 of snow. 



The view to the north was bright and clear ; in 75^° 

 N. Lat. we could distinctly see the land edged with firm 

 ice. Over the sea lay a thick fog, which spread over 

 all by degrees. We went hunting for a reindeer, but 

 missed it, and had to content ourselves with a white 

 hare. We returned on board in the evening. In the 

 night ice formed in the bay, which is also the case in 

 summer during a calm with a clear sky, though about the 

 beginning of August it disappears in the daytime. The 

 heavy ice in the straits had these last few days drifted 

 out to sea, and the land ice was more broken up. 



Thanks to the continued fine weather, work was 



