Survey of Northeast Greenland. 83 
country which he could not but think was a part of the east coast 
of Greenland. In the course of both of these voyages PEARY had 
established the fact that a great fjord or sound stretched from the 
east in a westerly direction south of Peary Land, and he supposed 
that this latter country was an island. 
In 1900 Peary’) travelled north from the district round Cape York 
through Robeson Channel; he passed the northernmost point of 
Greenland and penetrated from the north along the east coast of 
Peary Land as far as about 83°. The last stretch from 831/2° to 83° 
was covered under unfavourable circumstances as regards weather 
conditions, and the map was consequently less complete. 
The accompanying map sketch (Fig. 1) presents the chief carto- 
graphic object of the expedition. Apart from the Ardencaple Inlet and 
the problem of the Peary Channel the geographical surveys of the 
Danmark-Ekspedition were thus, according to the programme, made to 
include the east coast of Greenland from Haystack to Kap Bridgman. 
This stretch might a priori be estimated at about 1000 kilometres, 
but in reality it turned out to be considerably longer. 
The programme of the expedition as regards survey work was 
a very extensive one, in all a little more than a sixth of the whole 
outline of Greenland, and add to this that we had to reckon with con- 
siderable obstacles on the part of nature herself. Our success in 
carrying out our programme was first and foremost due to the 
indomitable energy of MyLius-ERICHSEN, and his firm belief that he 
would be successful. We were all carried away by his dominating 
personality and his confidence, and this was felt much more in the 
cartographical work than in any other field of activity. 
The courage and indefatigable labours of my comrades provided 
the material from which the maps were made. The particular 
activity of each of us in the service of cartography will be touched 
upon later on; in this place I shall only beg to call to mind the 
two men, who lost their lives when working in the cause of science: 
Lieut. HAGEN, who finished his map sketches of Danmarks Fjord and 
Independence Fjord”) at a period when hunger and want would 
have broken the energy of a weaker man and one endowed with 
less will power, and BRONLUND, who with frozen feet dragged himself 
to the depot on Lambert’s Land and there, with certain death staring 
him in the face, arranged everything so that the valuable map sketches 
should not be lost. 
1) Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 1, Geographical Society of Philadelphia. 
2?) At the time of the publication of the map of the expedition it was not known 
that there was no “Peary Channel”. In the maps we consequently find Inde- 
pendence Sund and not Independence Fjord. 
