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the craniums were not very old, but Eskimos must assuredly have killed 
the animals, as the canine teeth in the bear-craniums were missing. 
Further we found a curious formation of coal, projecting about 
30cm from the ground and with a diameter of about 60cm. The 
coal was rather hard, and its breaks were in flakes and shining. The 
frozen soil, however, prevented our further investigating this coal- 
seam, which came so close to the surface. 
The depot on Cape Philip Broke was found in comparatively good 
order. 
On Sept. 19th at 11 p.m. we got back to the ship after having walked 
all the way from Cape Philip Broke to the winterquarters at one stretch, 
save for a two hours’ rest. The young ice surrounding the ship was 
on that day sufficiently strong to carry the weight of a man, though it 
was still too thin to allow a loaded sledge to pass. 
The preparations for the sledge-trip to Lambert’s Land were carried 
on with great energy, and soon everything was ready — some days 
before it was thought prudent to start on the thin ice, which should be 
passed, before the old packice and safe ice north of Shannon Island 
could be reached. 
The Sledge-expedition to Lambert’s Land. 
September 25th—December 17th 1909. 
Plate III. 
The first object of the expedition was to undertake a sledge-journey 
to Lambert’s Land, with the purpose of investigating all the places 
where there might be any likelihood of finding the bodies of Мутлоз- 
ERICHSEN and HøEG-HAGEN. From the information obtained by Cap- 
tain Косн through JørGEeN BRONLUND’S journals it was thought likely 
that the camp of the perished men would be found at the mouth of a 
small fjord, cutting from the North into Lambert’s Land. If we did 
not find the camp there, we might be able to locate it off the broad 
glacier spanning 79° Fjorden where some, KocH among others, thought 
that the party had perished. 
But wherever the camp might be, our only chance of finding it 
would be in the autumn before the great fall of snow, and with this 
in view we had to begin the attempt as early as possible. However, 
the new ice was late in forming, and in spite of the fact that all pre- 
parations were finished about Sept. 16th, it was not till Sept. 25th that 
the ice was thought solid enough to risk the attempt. 
It was particularly round Cape Sussi — the northeasterly point of 
Shannon Island — that the coast would be difficult to pass, as shifting 
currents and winds broke up the young ice, but fortunately we could 
rather easily pass over the northeastern peninsula of Shannon Island 
through the flat valley connecting the waters on either side of it. 
