Survey of Northeast Greenland. 917 
We took with us dogs’ feed for six days (pemmican and a tin 
of greaves) provisions for nearly eight days, spirit and petroleum for 
about nine days, such odds and ends of our private property as we 
could carry in our sleeping bags and finally a good deal of ammunition. 
If only the musk oxen and hares would be kind enough to present 
themselves in front of our rifle barrels; otherwise we should be hard 
put to it to reach the most northerly point of Greenland, even with 
the best of sledding. The dogs are terribly weak. 
Fig. 41.  BRONLUND's arrangement to prevent the dogs from eating 
the sledge lashings etc. 
Departure 4 a. m. 
Wind 0—1, variable from N to W. Cover of clouds 3, stratus. 
Made rather good progress with the easy sledding. At 7.20 a. m. 
we had made 16km, and still seemed to be rather far away from 
land. Consequently we stopped and took observations at a station. 
(Determinations of time, azimuth, bearings). Continued at 8.20 a. m. 
Reached land at 9 a.m. after 18 km in all. A level sandy and 
gravelled beach with shells and plants. Along the beach new ice 
over old; apparently excellent sledding in south west along the coast. 
Met at once a covey of snow bunting, about six in number. 
25km. The cranium and bones of a musk ox. Large erratic 
blocks and gray fine-grained granite. 
Four musk oxen, cows with two calves. The two cows had 
