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sledge provisions, which we had in the first place computed for the 
sledge journey to Kap Bridgman was nearly consumed — milk, meat 
chocolate, butter, bread, cocoa, coffee, tea, blood pudding, sugar, 
lime juice — and all we had left was a little oatmeal, some pemmi- 
can and a tin of lobscouse. Consequently we were — and had 
already been for quite a long time — reduced to eating the still 
fresh meat of the musk oxen which the dogs had eaten of. We 
generally made soup twice a day, and besides we cut off raw meat 
for travelling provisions. Unfortunately we had to be very eco- 
nomical as regards petroleum; the meat was in reality never boiled, 
but only heated to the boiling point of the water. After a few days 
BERTELSEN and | were rather tired of this diet, and though we — 
and in particular I — ate very much, we were still perpetually 
hungry. In short, we were exhausted, and after having pitched our 
tent and cooked our food — this time pemmican and pea sausage, 
and for once we were really satisfied — we turned in, that is, we 
lay down on our sleeping bags and slept, while Togras drove to a 
valley to look for musk oxen. At about 5 o’clock Tobias returned. 
He had seen a lot of excrements and traces of musk oxen on the 
ground, as well as two fresh traces on the snow, but no oxen. Be- 
sides he had seen traces of foxes, of lemming and four hares, which 
the dogs had chased away. Later on we also several times heard 
the chirping of snow buntings. 
Hyde Fjord, south side. Station XI. 
Determination of latitude 17/V 07, ©, b = 769.5, Е = - 9.5. 
The determination of latitude is performed at the tent, i. e. west of 
the station. Hodometer distance from camping site 16/V 13 km. 
Telescope left | Telescope right 424915'.7 
т | Ale 7 295 46.8 
| Vernier Я Ц | | Vernier | Level о. 
Watch К — | | Watch K | | I 128 29.4 
| A В | Obs. Obj. | | A | В | Obs. Obj. Z = 6491477 
| | = | p=+ 158 
12h08m17s | 295°46'.1 | 46.6| 7.6 | 3.0 12h10m11s | 64°15'.4 |16'0| 25 | 70 T=+ 2.0 
12 38 46.1.1466 | 73 27 | 14 165) 154 1159 | 25 10 9— +19 086 
2,3 17 53 | 15.5 |16.0 | 30 | 7.5 += 83°09.5 
| | 
16 06 46.0: | 46.5 | 7.0 | 
The weather 17/V. In the forenoon and ås late as 5 p.m. calm, 
bright sunshine, light haze. At 5 p.m. rather violent gusts from 
NNE; still BERTELSEN could sit in the open air and paint. These 
gusts of wind lasted till a little over midnight (about 1 a.m.), and 
during the last few hours they perhaps had the direction of NNW. 
From 1 a.m. again calm. ; 
