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to guide him in his further search for the bodies of the perished men, 
particularly as it was springtime and all the country hidden deep in 
snow, which assuredly would have covered the bodies and made it 
nearly impossible to locate them, even if the exact place of disaster 
had been known. 
Косн therefore returned to the headquarters of the expedition 
at Danmark’s Havn, bringing with him the maps, sketches of the country 
and the journal of JoRGEN BRØNLUND, and albeit opinions differed as to 
the place of disaster when the matter was discussed on board the ship upon 
Kocn’s return, no further attempt was made to locate the place as the 
season was far advanced and the depots nearly emptied along the coast 
from Schnauder’s Island southward. 
Referring to JORGEN BRØNLUND's statement as to the locality of 
the disaster, which, as stated, is exceedingly vague, namely: 
“the bodies of the two others lie in the middle of the fjord in front 
of the glacier (about 10 miles)“ 
there seem to be two places, where the bodies might be found, viz: 
1. 10 miles off the front of the big glacier, emptying itself into 79 
fjord, and in the middle of this fjord. 
The fjord however is 32 miles broad, and according to Косн, 
the edge of glacier cannot be determinated within 8 miles"), and 
2. in the middle of the westernmost fjord,?) cutting down into Lambert’s 
Land, in which case the 10 miles mentioned by JORGEN BRØNLUND 
stands for the distance between the depot on Lambert’s Land — 
where BRØNLUND perished — and this fjord. 
This latter assumption seems the most likely one as a party retur- 
ning from such a journey across the inland-ice as Myrıus ERICHSEN 
and his companions had been compelled to make, will be most apt to 
follow the land when it once is reached for the following reasons: 
In darkness it is easier to travel close to land where the undula- 
tions in the ice can be seen more clearly than further out. 
The ice is a rule better close under a coast than further out, as the 
squalls, sweeping out from gullies, etc. blow the snow away from the 
coast-ice. 
There would probably be many uncovered cracks and fissures on 
the glacier so early in the winter, making travelling over it difficult 
and dangerous, while close in land only few of these dangers exist. 
A starving party returning from the inland-ice would decidedly 
") Medd. om Gronland, vol. XLI, pag. 194. 
2) LE] 19 9 LE] LE] 29 219. 
