20 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
glacier in “Nioghalvfjersfjorden”, and the distance (about 10 miles) 
will then be the distance which BrRoNLUND must have walked, until he 
reached the place, where he perished. 
This fits in very well with everything that is known, and it is also 
most likely that the perishing men would follow the coast, where the 
going is always bet- 
ter with less and 
harder snow than 
further out, and where 
in the semi-darkness 
it is much more easy 
to know ones where- 
abouts than it would 
be further out to sea, 
1.е. ш the middle of 
the fjord. The shore 
has another advan- 
tage, as the party 
might get a stray hare 
or ptarmigan when 
following it. It cer- 
tainly seems most 
likely that this route 
has been followed, and 
I that the fjord men- 
be N tioned by BRONLUND 
Li А MBE RT 5 LAN, D | is the one marked ПТ. 
ila The coast and later 
on the mouth of the 
fjord as wellas the cape 
marked IV were all 
| examined very care- 
МА es sæ ESKE: м | й fully without however 
/ finding the slightest 
trace, and the search 
had to be given up 
in this quarter. 
It is most likely that the tent has been raised on the sea-ice, as it 
must have been difficult to find suitable snow on land so early in the 
winter (middle of November), and in this case the tent and bodies must 
have disappeared, as we to our surprise found evidence of a very exten- 
sive melting of the sea-ice. A large rivulet runs out in the place marked 
x, and this must cause the melting of the ice. The place hatched on the 
sketchmap was all covered with new ice, and the old ice surrounding 
it must have been in motion last summer, as it was broken up in small 
Fig. 6. 
