Report on the expedition. >: 
pieces with edges so sharp that they cannot have been exposed to the 
rays of a summer sun. 
As the camping site could thus in all probability not have been 
on land, it was evident that wherever it might have been in this locality, 
it must have melted through the ice or drifted away out to sea. 
There was, however, another possibility viz. that BRØNLUND'S 
— — — lie in the middle of the fjord in front of the glacier 
(about 10 miles)’ might be understood like this, that the middle of 
the fjord was meant to be in the middle of “Nioghalvfjersfjorden”, 
in which case the distance (about 10 miles) would be the distance 
between the glacier front and the camping site. 
This however would locate the camping site far out towards the 
mouth of the fjord in a line from Cape Anna Bistrup to the island off 
Lambert’s Land, and that would seem impossible when assuming that 
the party came down over the glacier spanning Nioghalvfjersfjorden. 
To investigate this possibility we went NE from our tent on Nov. 
4th, but here we found the same conditions as south of our tent, new 
ice or old floes broken into pieces and churned about. We even passed 
a crack about 7 metres wide, and were surprised to see that the thin 
ice covering the water was barely 5 cm thick, thus showing that 
the crack had been formed within the last twelve hours, a good evi- 
dence of the motion of the ice in this rather deep bay, in which the ice 
was not yet quite stationary. 
The extent of new ice grew larger, as we advanced towards the 
northeast; the floes became more scattered, and we thought it unneces- 
sary to go more than 4 miles in this direction, as it was evident that 
we would very soon have reached extensive sheets of ice, and that at 
any rate only thin ice could be found at the place, where the camp of the 
perished men should have been, assuming that the above was the real 
interpretation of BRONLUND’s last message. We then gave up the search, 
being confident that the bodies of Myrıus-ErıcHsen and HøEG-HAGEN 
must have disappeared, either — which is the most likely — by melting 
through the ice or by having drifted to sea on a piece of ice. 
We did not see the glacier-front, but it must be remembered that 
darkness prevented an extensive view, while all near objects were quite 
visible. 
Everything which could be done in this locality, was now performed, 
save a cut out over the ice from our tent towards SE, and this we did 
at the beginning of our return journey on Nov. öth at 7,30 a.m. The 
ice was of the same kind here as in the other places, which we had already 
investigated — old floes with a good deal of new ice in between. None 
of the old floes were more than a mile in extension, and the further we 
got out, the more scattered they became, giving thus an additional 
proof to our theory that the whole of Nioghalvfjersfjorden had been 
broken up, and that a great part of the ice had drifted away. 
€ 
