450 I. P. Koch. 
We have seen that the more important rivers in Germania Land 
are glacier rivers; it is as a matter of fact owing to this very circum- 
stance that in spite of their short length they can transport con- 
siderable quantities of water. Besides the above-mentioned there are 
still two glacier rivers, the waters of which however only appear in 
the day, after they have reached the sea. One of these has its course 
below Kofoed-Hansens Br&; the other is formed from the glacier 
rivers of Storstrommen and Bistrups Br&, and debouches into the ice- 
_ fjord of Storstrømmen (Borgfjorden). The existence of the former 
has, however, not been proved; I only conclude that it must be 
there on account of the somewhat striking circumstance that open 
water forms in the south-western corner of Jokelbugten (see map 
1: 1000000, southern sheet, Pl. У). The latter is well known. It 
carries such great quantities of water, that Из tributaries under the 
ice must be supposed to stretch as far as the central part of Green- 
land. These enormous quantities of water flow from the icefjord of 
Storstrømmen (Borgfjorden), out through the many sounds in the 
western part of Dove Bugt. The great mass of the river water pre- 
sumably passes, like the icebergs, between Edvards Ø and Carl Hegers 
©, but in this place there has been no opportunity to observe the 
current conditions. On the other hand, the sounds between Edvards 
Ø and the country south of Hellefjord (Daniel Bruuns Land) were 
in 1912 several times navigated by myself with a motor boat, and 
every time under the greatest difficulties owing to the current 
conditions. In the narrow sounds the current, in great whirlpools, 
crushes outwards with a speed varying with the tidal wave, and 
which we estimated at 3 to 6 knots. The clayey waters of the 
glacier river could be followed as a broad brownish ribbon in Dove 
Bugt, as far as Spydodden (the spear point) and probably still further. 
Beyond the above description from Germania Land and Dronning 
Louises Land we know no more of lakes and water courses in 
Northeast Greenland, than what has been indicated in the maps i. е. 
practically nothing. It must here be borne in mind that the in- 
vestigation of the tracts lying north of Germania Land was under- 
taken on a forced sledge trip in the spring. The conditions on a 
hard sledge trip as a rule do not permit one to make longer. ex- 
cursions across the country, and besides in the spring the river beds 
are dry and the smaller lakes hidden under the snow. 
In particular in Peary Land it must be supposed that it will be 
possible to come across larger lakes and more considerable water 
courses, such as for instance KNup RASMUSSEN and PETER FREUCHEN 
came across in Valmuedalen, during the summer of 1912. HAGEN who 
together with Myzius-ERICHSEN and BRØNLUND spent the summer of 
