PIREBACE 
АЛ YHEN the “Danmark Expedition” returned in August 1908, it 
was reported that the leader of the Expedition, Mr. L. Myrrus- 
ERICHSEN, Lieutenant Horc-HAGEN and the Eskimo JØRGEN BRØNLUND, 
had lost their lives on the return voyage to the ship, after the successful 
discovery of the Danmark’s Fjord and a complete survey of the north-east 
coast of Greenland with its large fjords. The expedition had succeeded 
in reaching the locality discovered and partly surveyed by Вовевт 
E. Peary in 1892 and 1895, thereby finishing the survey of the Green- 
landic coast, and concluding a brilliant chapter in the discovery of Green- 
land. 
Thus ran the report, brought to the knowledge of the members 
of the “Danmark Expedition” by Captain J. P. Косн, a member of 
the expedition, who had held north from the headquarters of the ex- 
pedition in the spring of 1908, when Mytius-Ericusen and his com- 
rades failed to return. Косн reached Lambert's Land and found the 
body of JørGEN BRØNLUND at the depot placed there, as well as some 
very valuable data concerning the journey of the lost party, consisting 
of a map sketch over the territory surveyed, some sketches of the new 
discovered land, and at last the private journal of JørGEN BRØNLUND 
written in Greenlandic but containing a final entry in Danish, running 
— in translation — thus: 
“Perished in 79 Fjord after an attempt to return by way of the 
“inland-ice in the month of November. I arrived here by waning 
“moon and can go no further owing to frostbites on the feet and 
“the darkness. The bodies of the two others lie in the middle of 
“the fjord in front of the glacier (about 10 miles). Hagen died 
“on the 15th of November, and Mylius about 10 (2)! days later. 
JORGEN BRONLUND. 
As seen from this last entry by JØRGEN BRØNLUND in his diary, 
the place of disaster, where Mytius-Ericusen and HøEGH-HAGEN met 
death after a brave struggle, is very vague, and Koch had really nothing 
1) Meddelelser om Grønland, vol. XLI, pag. 219—220. 
