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into Independence Bay, and reaching on the following day the mouth 
of a bay later named Hagen’s Fjord. This fjord however, was not ex- 
plored at the time, the party pushing on to Cape Glacier. 
By the 3°, they must have passed this fjord, since JORGEN Ввох- 
LUND writes: 
“May 30th. The weather had become calm. From the other fjord? 
“there came a slight wind which we had at our backs .... A little 
“after 6 in the evening started again in the direction of Cape Glacier. 
“We were moving westwards in a large sound’’?. 
At the end of the second day’s sledging, the party probably camped 
at a spot a little beyond Cape Peter Henrik. With regard to the third 
day’s journey, which commenced on the evening of the 30th, JORGEN 
BRONLUND writes: 
“We wanted to sight the place reached by Peary? but did not 
“get so far, and without having it above the horizon we had to make 
“a halt; we drove along a hilly stretch of coast, tending smoothly to- 
“wards the west by south and stopped early in the morning of the 31st 
“of May, after having covered 36 miles’’4. 
These 36 miles which, according to BRONLUNDS note, were covered 
in a westerly direction from the mouth of Hagen’s Fjord would bring the 
party to the mouth of Astrups Bay, which agrees with the statement 
in BRONLUND’s diary, when he expressly mentions that the lie of the 
land was south of west. Up to this point the general direction — 
according to the map — had been westerly, even tending slightly to- 
wards north. 
On the 1/, JØRGEN BRONLUND writes: 
“In the night we at last sighted the place we wanted to see’’®. 
The sledge-party must here assuredly have reached Varde Point, 
and not as previously supposed, the inner termination of Hagen’s Fjord. 
This agrees both with MyLius-ERICHSEN'S report and with the sketch 
of the land from the termination of Independence Fjord, made by Horc- 
HAGEN. Moreover, BRONLUND had throughout referred to Cape Glacier 
as being their final objective. 
Varde Point was most likely reached on the morning of the 1/,, 
HoEG-HAGEN’S sketch from here being dated 1/,. Had they arrived 
in the evening, there would probably have been no time for surveying 
work or making sketches, as they would have been obliged to rest first. 
The party must have remained at the bottom of Independence 
Fjord until the 4th of June inclusive. BRONLUND writes: 
1 Hagen’s Fjord. Note by author. 
3 Glacier Point. Note by author. 
2, 4,5 Amprup, Medd. om Grønland, Vol. XLI, pag. 204. 
