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Regarding the conditions in Danmarks Fjord we know also from 

 Brønlund's diary, that the following among others occur there, though 

 only in small numbers: brent goose ^, ptarmigan, owls, hares, wolves, 

 foxes, seals and musk-ox. 



hi a letter from Mylius-Erichsen to the Second-in-command of 

 the Expedition we find : 



"Lat. ca. 82° 03'. "-^la 07. — — There- we shot 22 hares, 4 ptarmigan and 

 21 musk-ox; found driftwood at the head of the fjord. 



Also Eskimo ruins !^ 



Shot at a wolf, saw two snowy owls etc. — — — " 



For the rest Hagen's charts give a good idea of the topograph- 

 ical conditions. 



Regarding the stretch between District II and District III we 

 have the following information from Captain Koch: 



"South of Nordost-Rundingen (lat. 81° 21', long. 11° iOf) the low inland-ice 

 extending right out to the sea offers good ground for travelling and at the 

 same time the conditions for hunting at the sea improve. At lat. ca. 81° the 

 conditions are so much better that occupation has been possible." 



District III. Ingolfs Fjord. 



Sophus Müllers Næs (lat. Sif 49', long. 14° 25'). Here 1 winter- 

 house, tent-rings and temporary meat-stores were found. 



The fore-land is flat; the settlement was built on this. The screw 

 ice goes close in to land. 



About 100 meters from the beach there was a winter-house (4), 

 which was much sunken in the ground. 



Tent-rings (5) w^ere seen quite close to the beach and several 

 large temporary meat-stores (6), but comparatively few bones were 

 found scattered about the tent places. 



The temporary meat-stores were so large that Captain Koch and 

 his comrades w'ere able to put half a walrus in one of them. Se- 

 veral discoveries of implements etc. were placed in a 

 depot at this place by the sledge-team of the Danmark 

 Expedition. 



Captain Koch's party had good hunting here after walrus and 

 seals. 



Eskimonæsset (lal. 80° 26', long. 15° 48'). Here 1 winter-house, 

 tent-rings and temporary meat-stores w^ere found. 



The settlement was situated on a point on the south side of a 

 ' {Anser torqvatiis.) - In Danmarlis Fjord. ' (2 and 3). 



