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were at the depot, thus having used seventeen days with 130,8 едете 
hours to cover a distance of 150 miles, making an hourly average of 
1,13 miles. 
We were helped to find the first trace of the depot by the many 
fox-tracks all going in one direction, and looking carefully we discovered 
some empty as well as some full tins of provisions under a few pieces 
of wood and a Lux-apparatus without any stanchions. It was evident 
that the grave of BRØNLUND could not be far off. We went a little 
further and camped half a mile from the depot, in order to make sure 
that the dogs would not disturb the body. Afterwards we went to the 
point and saw a round hole in the snow, which had been dug by foxes, 
and seeing also a few fragments of reindeer skin we felt certain that 
this must be the resting place of JørGEN BRONLUND, but on account 
of the darkness further investigations were postponed until the following 
day, Nov. Ist, when the snow round the body was removed and everything 
carefully examined — the body as well as the surrounding ground. 
On the body we found sinews, cartridges, a comb, a small piece of 
brass chain, a watch and a couple of pencils, and underneath the body 
a small canvas bag containing a sketchbook, a calendar, some tools and 
sewing gears. When we were perfectly sure that nothing more was to 
be found, the body was replaced, a crude coffin was made of various 
boxes, and stones were piled on so as to make it impossible for the foxes 
to touch the body. 
The two books were frozen together, and it was not till they had 
been melted in the tent, that we could separate the leaves, which did 
not contain any writing, but only a sketch made by BRaNLUND of Dan- 
marks Fjord and a portrait of MyLius-ERICHSEN and HorG-HAGen. 
On Nov. 2nd we left BRØNLUND's grave, and on the same night 
we reached the small island NE off Lambert’s Land, where we camped 
with the intention of looking for the camping-site of the perished party, 
using our own tent as our base of operations. 
Splendid clear weather and a moon almost at her full facilitated our 
search on Nov. 5rd, when JORGENSEN and I went out, following the routes 
shown on the sketch (Fig. 6). We investigated the point marked I 
where the party must have passed, and I followed the quite fresh traces 
of a bear, hoping that it might have got the scent of the bodies. The 
trace disappeared on the land at the place marked II, and we followed 
the coast towards the south to the small fjord, which was most likely 
the one mentioned in BRONLUND’s last message, where he writes: 
The bodies of the two others lie in the middle of the 
fjord in front of the glacier (about 10 miles)? 
This small fjord might well be said to be “in front of the gla- 
слег”, as it was the first one that the party reached, after it had left the 
1 Amprup, Medd. om Grønland, Vol. XLI, pag. 192. 
