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fjord — Ingolfs Fjord — which may be open, in our opinion, in 

 favourable summers. Captain Koch adds however: 



"— — that the summers in which tlie ice disappears must now be rare." 



Tent-rings (7) and temporary meat-stores (8) were found near 



the beach (walrus, fjord seal, musk-ox and narhwal occurred here). 



Possibly the point is a walrus point, that is a place on which 



the walrus climb up to sleep and sun themselves. Musk-ox were shot 



inside Ingolfs Fjord. 



When the snow melted away in the early summer of 1907 the 

 Greenlander Tobias found a very sunken winter-house (9) close to 

 the tent-rings. 



Brønlund's diary contains the following notes about this place: 

 "23rd April. We proceeded further*, keeping to the foot of the ice al- 

 most the wliole time. After we had passed round what we took to be a 

 Ijromontory, we stumbled upon some very old tent places and found there 

 various articles, walrus heads and bones, and also the bones of a herring 

 whaled" 



Fældestrand (lat. 80° 19', long. 16° 12'). A couple of tent-rings 

 were found on the beach (10). 



Further up on the land some traps were seen (11), which at first 

 sight seemed to be cairns. They were very large, ca. 1^ — Г5 meter 

 in height outside, and exceedingly well-preserved. 



The two winter-houses found in Ibis District (4 and 9) were 

 very much sunken in the ground and certainly much older than the 

 well-preserved houses in District V (the neighbourhood of Кар Bis- 

 marck), and even seemed to the Greenlander Tobias much older 

 than any of the other winter-houses he had seen in East Greenland. 



It is worthy of remark, that in this northern District we have 

 only found bouses which were so much sunk in the ground that 

 their presence was only indicated by a very faint mark — a slight 

 elevation above the ground; the ruins, namely, are but rarely so 

 much overgrown with vegetation that they become distinct from 

 the surroundings. If there had been any well-preserved houses, 

 like those in District V, they would certainly not have escaped at- 

 tention. We may believe therefore, that such do not occur in these 

 parts. 



The information regarding this District has been obtained from 

 Koch, Bertelsen, Tobias, Gustav Thostrup and Dr. Wegener. 

 Further, Mylius-Erichsen describes the District in letters to the 

 Second-in-command as follows: 



> Towards tlie nortli in the spring of 1907. - (Balaenoplera). 



