Survey of Northeast Greenland. 337 
and Morris Jessup, and so that I may undertake a few measurements 
of the heights of mountain peaks. 
1012. Calm, dim; the mountains inland are lying free; fog on 
the horizon. 11 p.m. faint wind NNW — 1m — it seems as if the 
mist is setting in again. No clouds in the zenith. 
Started at 2.30 a.m. Mist over land and also over the sea. 
Cover of clouds 10; wind 3m from WNW. Commenced the home 
journey, at the present bound for Hyde Fjord. Drove at once to the 
shore, built a cairn and deposited report (rough draft in drawing 
portfolio). 
Sa.m. 34km: Hyde Fjord which from the point, where we 
touched the west side of the fjord yesterday”), has bent its western 
coastline in five small curves in a southern direction, now rather 
suddenly turns round a flat headland, after which the coastline goes 
in SW by S in a fresh bay. Here the mountains begin with a SW 
direction; a narrow foreland between the flat headlands. 
36km: Again a flat headland and, as it seems, a rather big 
curve, where the direction of the coastline is at first westerly. 
441/2 km: The just mentioned great curve, which falls into two 
parts, a big northeasterly and a small southwesterly, ends. The no 
longer quite flat headland now enters upon a new curve, terminating 
at 48km. Stopped and pitched our tent. 
The weather on 16/V. The wind kept blowing from WNW, 
3—5 m velocity, and quite a light snowdrift, until 9 o’clock. At that 
period we had got into Hyde Fjord, where the weather was clear, 
with a few fog banks and nearly calm. From 10 a.m. quite a faint 
breeze from NE. The fog was still over the sea, and also over a 
considerable distance of the fjord. 
10 p.m. calm, clear. Fog banks visible out to sea. 
Noon latitude 83°14'.5. Determinations of time and bearings in 
the course of the evening. From 8 to 10 o’clock I took a little walk 
inland. Up to as much as 100m above sea level and perhaps still 
higher, the surface is covered with pebbles (granite); the vegetation 
is very sparse. Only in one place, in a crevice, where during the 
summer there is a little running water, was there a suggestion of a 
continuous carpet of vegetation. The number of the species also 
seemed very small. Traces and excrements of musk oxen. The 
plants collected are all from an altitude of 70—100m and from 
localities facing south. The stone sample is from an altitude of 
about 100m; the mountains seemed everywhere to be of this species 
of stone; it is rather slaty and strongly intersected with veins of 
Published in Medd. om Grenland XLI, p. 127. 
15/V nearly 1 a.m. 
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