184 Chr. Bendix Thostrup 



Thomsen of the Copenhagen Museum, who has worked through the 

 material for this report along with me. 



The ethnographic investigations of the Expedition. 

 On the stretch of Greenland's east coast traversed by the Expe- 

 dition — from Sabines (lat. 144-2°) to Кар Bridgman (lat. 88^/2°) 

 — signs of an earlier occupation by the Eskimos were found at 

 most places on the coast (see PI. IV), but no living Eskimos were 

 met with.^ 



The region over which the Expedition worked was so extensive, 

 that only a small part of it could be investigated very closely, and 

 the portion best investigated was naturally the neighbourhood of 

 Danmarks Havn at Кар Bismarck (lat. 76'''U), where the Expedition 

 had its station (see PI. V). 



The investigations in 1906 were carried out by Mylius-Erichsen 

 assisted by several members of the Expedition, and in the spring of 

 1907 Mylius-Erichsen — likewise assisted by his companions — 

 investigated the coast from the station northwards to Кар Glacier. 



The absence of Mylius-Erichsen and his comrades after the 

 spring journey of 1907 led to great changes in the programme of the 

 Expedition, — not least in the work connected with the ethnographic 

 investigations, where Mylius-Erichsen himself was the director. 



Not only was a large portion of the observations north of lat. 

 S0° lost, but even the work nearer to the station was affected by 

 the absence of the sledge-team, as a comparatively large part of the 

 Expedition's time, material, dogs and personnel was employed in the 

 search for the missing explorers and thus could not be used for the 

 scientific investigations. The fact alone, that the whole summer of 

 1907 saw nothing done on the ethnographic side of the programme 

 of the Expedition, was in itself very regrettable, but the greatest 

 loss naturally was the personal influence, power and lead of Mylius- 

 Erichsen, and even with the best of help it has not been possible 

 for me to produce such weighty results even approximately as the 

 Expedition would have gained, if Mylius-Erichsen had been able 

 to conclude the ethnographic work. 



In the summer of 1908 the short period of work was utilized to 

 the fullest extent. 



All the independent investigations were made by myself, with 

 exception of some explorations in the district round Teufelkap, which 



1 Cf. ScoRESBY 1 : p. 333; Sabine: pp. 418, 416 Chart; Clavering: pp. 1—30, Peterm. 

 Mitth. 18(58: p. 223; 1 87 0: pp. 325— 26, 327, 418; 1871: p.224; Pansch: p. 53 ; 

 Koldewey: I, pp.588, 600—04; II: pp. 144-45; Greely: I, p. 27; Ryder: p. 283 ; 

 SøRKN Hansen: pp. 3 — 4; Amdrup: 2, pp. 288, 289 and Thalbitzer: p. 343. 



