CHAPTER IV. 
Head of Independence Bay. 
Sketched on 1. June 1907 by A. P. Ноев HAGEN. 
(Medd. om Grønland XLI, PI. IX.) 
After MyLius-ERICHSEN's sledge journey to the interior of Inde- 
pendence Fjord this locality was visited and mapped out during the 
voyage of Knup RASMUSSEN in 1912"). From the latter journey as 
well as from that of MyLius-ERICHSEN there are, however, по photo- 
graphs from the interior of Independence Fjord. HAGEN’s perspective 
sketch is thus the only perspective representation from the fjord it- 
self?), and as such it is of no mean interest to try to understand it. 
Hacen’s sketch (Fig. 58) is a panorama. In order to economize 
space it is originally delineated in two parts (see Medd. om Grøn- 
land XLI, PI. IX). 
In order to arrive at an understanding of the panorama we 
might begin by making an approximate estimate of the point from 
where it must be imagined to be seen. There is a priori an over- 
whelming probability that the sketch was made from MyLius-ERICHSEN's 
Cairn or from an observation station on the fjord about 3km from 
the cairn. Pl. V in Medd. om Grønl. XLI shows that from these two 
places HAGEN has laid down angles on his map. He has thus pre- 
sumably here performed observations from two connected stations 
for the purpose of mapping out the interior of the fjord. It is be- 
sides a reasonable supposition — judging by Ввомгомо’$ diary as 
well as the report of MyLius-ERICHSEN of August 1907 (Medd. om 
Gronl. ХМ, р. 472) — that the latter’s sledge party must have been 
in this locality on June 1st, i. e. on the date of the panorama. 
As HAGEN has performed observations from Mylius-Erichsen’s 
Cairn, one may take it for granted that as a link in the observations 
1) Medd. om Grenl. LI. 
?) In “Northward over the Great Ice”, vol. I, р. 346, PEARY publishes a photo taken 
from Navy Cliff of the region round Kap Glacier. On the other photos in PEARY's 
book Independence Fjord is not to be found. 
