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follow the coast where possible, аз there always is а possibility for 
obtaining game on land, while none at all out on the glacier. 
To search for the lost men and their camp off the glacier — as in 
the first assumption — must be left entirely out of the question on ac- 
count of the impossibility to locate a camp after such vague information 
as was given in JORGEN BRONLUND’s entry, and in so difficult a country, 
particularly when conditions are such as stated by Косн, viz: 
that the edge of the glacier cannot be determinated within about 8 
miles. When adding to this the heavy fall of snow during the preceding 
fall and winter!, it is evident that all traces of the camp or the bodies 
would be obliterated long before Косн reached the place, even if they 
had perished there, which seems unlikely. 
Then remained the search for the bodies in the middle of the 
westernmost fjord on Lambert’s Land (Assumption 2). 
Captain Kocu did not attempt to search there, as the information 
contained in JORGEN BRONLUND’s journal was so fragmentary as to 
make it intelligible, and it was not till later that the theory was 
brought forth that the bodies should be looked for in the oftnamed 
fjord on Lambert’s Land. 
The possibilities for finding the bodies there were however very 
slight in the spring of the year, when everything was covered by snow, 
and to search this locality was however — as already stated — unprac- 
ticable on account of the lateness of the season and the lacking food 
facilities along the coast. 
When the Danmark Expedition returned home with its splendid 
results, it was therefore still an open question where My tius-ERICHSEN 
and Horc-Hacen had met their death after the most heroic struggle 
on record, and where their journals might be found. This fact gave 
rise to the thought of organizing an expedition with the main purpose 
to investigate this matter more closely than it had been possible for the 
members of the Danmark Expedition, albeit the possibilities for success 
were slight, considering that two summers thaw and one winters frost 
might have — and most likely would have — obliterated all traces 
of the missing men, before an expedition could reach this place. 
There was however a possibility that additional information could 
be found in Danmark’s Fjord where — according to JØRGEN BRONLUND’S 
journal — the party had spent the summer preceding the disaster and 
where also — in accordance with the same source — a depot had been 
established at Cape Kronborg?. It would likely be possible to find the 
journals of the missing men as well as their collections at this place, 
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