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time or later, on May 25th, when we were sledging close in to the low 
coast. 
In the evening we camped off a place, which we thought to be the 
summer camp, judging from Horc-Hacen’s chart. A large river and 
just north of it some smaller ones intersected a quite low, clayey fore- 
land, which rose slowly up to 100 metres about 1 mile inland. 
It was however not the place, but we traversed it several times 
before coming to the conclusion that we had made a mistake in the 
locality, as no traces whatever were found on the extremely barren 
land. 
The weather was a little clearer than usual to-day, and we were 
able to see quite a distance inland. The country was undulating and 
rose in long, flat hills, as far as we could see, but it did not attain any 
great height, probably not more than 200 metres. 
It was again impressed upon us that the country must be more 
than usually covered with snow, as hardly any bare spots were visible 
when looking out over the land, and north and south of the above men- 
tioned low country there was so much snow on the coast that it fell 
off with a vertical drop of 2—3 metres, perfectly resembling a local 
glacier. 
At last, on May 26th, we reached the summer camp at about 82° N. and 
found “Bronlunds Varde” shown on HøEG-HAGEN's chart. It was erected 
on a 75 metres high shoulder, projecting out to sea, and as the surroun- 
ding country was very low, the cairn was standing in a very dominating 
place. It was empty, but from its site we had an extensive view over 
the low land and small surrounding hills, almost every one of which 
was surmounted by a cairn (Fig. 51). 
The summer camp itself was quite flat, extending for a length of 
1% miles N—S, and 34 miles in breadth. It was bordered on the shore- 
ward side by small hills, between which some rivulets had cut fairly 
deep beds, which continued out over the low, level plain. Near one 
of these rivers we found the old camping site of Mytius-ERIcHSEN and 
close by it the fireplace. 
This fireplace was very crude. It consisted of a couple of large 
tins, which had formerly contained dog-pemmican and were now filled 
with stones, flanked by a few large boulders. Between these latter an 
iron runner was wedged down, the iron being so bent that a pot could 
be suspended from its upper end (Fig. 52). 
Some ashes as well as some half burned bones of musk-ox were 
still lying in the circular enclosure thus formed, and this latter indicated 
the scarcity of fuel, albeit bones — particularly fresh ones — burn 
very well, when once alight. 
Round about we saw many traces of men, viz. footprints in the 
clayey ground, but of utensils no trace. Some small pieces of metal 
formerly belonging to the theodolite were found close to the stones, 
