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women's boat would be bound with great risks; in the latter case 

 such a fog blots out all the certain marks of the situation and one 

 loses the feeling with the coast, which is so necessary for all to go 

 rightly; for the rest, the relation between the extent of the open 

 water and the passable ice is such, that the boat journeys must for 

 this reason alone be very short. 



The settlements visited by our Expedition can be divided 

 naturally^ in my opinion into 6 districts, which are separated from 

 one another either by places difficult to pass, such as Nordost-Run- 

 dingen, Mallemukfjeldet or Jøkelbugten, or by stretches which for 

 other reasons have not been suitable for occupation^' and on which 

 therefore we now find only primitive shelters here and there for 

 use during hunting. 



The districts are the following: 



District I. The land round Hagens Fjord (lat. 82^). 



District II. Danmarks Fjord (lat. 82°— 81°). 

 These two places probably contain settlements of much greater 

 extent than our travellers have seen. 



District III. Ingolfs Fjord (lat. 80^2°). 



Here we found stone remains on both sides of the mouth of 

 the fjord. The inner parts of the fjord were not investigated. 



District IV. Skærfjorden (lat. 77^/2°). 



This subdivision might almost be regarded as a combination of 

 a fjord-complex and land which lies under the shelter of a promon- 

 tory. Stone remains were found in the eastern part of the district. 

 The fjords were not investigated closely. 



District V. The neighbourhood of Кар Bismarck (lat. 



763/4°). 



This subdivision was best investigated. Stone remains were 

 found on the east coast of Germania Land, along the north side of 

 the extensive Dove Bugt, on the islands and outstanding rocks in 

 the Bay and on the land west of Store Koldewey. 



District VI. The coast between Shannon and Clave- 

 ring (lat. 76-74°). 



This subdivision was not very closely investigated and lies in 

 part beyond the sphere of operations of the Expedition. 



1 Cf. Garde 2: pp. ИИ), 170. - Cf. Amdrup 1: p. 240 and Amdrup 2: pp. 294—95. 



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