322 I. P. Koch. 
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Point in the terrain |— bis ces | Mat encores Azimuth 
А SIE, Cbs NON ТО 
| Meridian point c. CR | À 
AA PRE PE | | | | 39°38 | S76E 
HN EN one PRE | | | 192 11 | S76W 
Па еси | | | 209 47 | №87 \ 
Telesc. left 14/1 .... |:272916'.3 | 16.6 | 8.2 | 3.0 | 248 31 | №48 W Compass 1.5 
Telesc. right ....... | 87 45.2 | 467 | 20| 68| | 
Telesc. left 17/1 .… | 270 25.9 | 26.0 | 120 | 6.8| 70 10 | S46E Compass 182.9 
Telesc. right ....... | 89 35.5 | 36.0 | 6.0 | 110 | | 
426°15'.9 si 6601458 | 
293 46.3 —+ 15.9 
en i p = 82°36'.0. 
132°29'.6 | | 
д — + 16 35.0 
cranium and skeleton of a musk ox. Our spirits rose, the chances 
of fair hunting increased, but the cranium was possibly several years 
old, and we found no traces of excrements (excrements of hares we 
found immediately on the shore). Shortly afterwards we came across 
urinous formations frozen into the snow and due to a big beast; it 
might have been a musk ox, but it was not certain. But after that 
we had not driven many minutes, before we found the excrements, 
which now became more and more frequent, according as we 
approached the mountains. Then ToBias stopped short, turned round 
and said: “Косн, two musk oxen!” We took out the binocle and 
soon made sure that his eyes had not deceived him; the oxen were 
walking about at a distance of some four kilometres, grazing peace- 
fully. Tosıas — the born hunter and sealer — then arranged the 
hunt. He and I took three dogs each from our teams, and with them 
we started in the direction of the musk oxen, whereas BERTELSEN 
remained with the sledges. It was very hard work to reach the 
oxen; the dogs were so tired that they lay down every few minutes, 
so that we actually had to drag them along; of course they could 
not understand, why Togias and I could not take a walk without 
them. Even when we were at a distance of 30m from the oxen, 
the dogs kept behind us. Then we let them loose and began to 
shoot at the oxen — it turned out that there were four oxen and 
two calves — but now the dogs became alive; they rushed forward 
and attacked the oxen from all sides, so that they had to stand still 
and defend themselves against the dogs, and thus they became an 
easy prey to our bullets. It was the usual practice of the musk 
oxen which was here followed: they formed a sort of square with 
the calves in the centre, and now and then made a sally against 
