92 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
“2 June. In the evening at 6 o’clock I went out hunting musk- 
“oxen at a place ca. 8 miles away. I found a great number of tracks 
“in the bay, but saw no animals. On the way back I saw again a seal 
“on the ice; when I was calling for my dogs it heard me, and the moment 
“I saw it, it dived down again. Hoping that it would reappear, I stood 
“on the watch for it, but in vain’”!, 
“3 June. At noon I returned and found my comrades very anxious 
“and on the point of setting 
BRONLUND mentions, quit 
bers of musk-ox tracks in th 
the camp. This bay must pi 
the bottom of Independence | 
(Plate IV & IX). The low-h 
side of the bottom of the Fjor 
must be comparatively low. 
BRONLUND’S probable as: 
to perceive with certainty that 
ly have persuaded Myrıus-E. 
precious days to the task of 
could be no other reason for t 
could not expect to find game 
They did go out, howeve 
the camp, when he woke about 
from the note in his diary: 
“June 4th. At noon I a 
“two ptarmigans at one shot o: 
“as we were quite destitute of 
“of meal for one more time. A 
“the inlandice merges into tl 
“but returned soon after with 
“Myrıus and HAGEN returnec 
MYLIUS-ERICHSEN and Ha 
the time they had been away 
statement as to the non-existe 
makes no mention whatsoever 
merely stating that they had f: 
bered, however, that this for 
the appearance of the country pemg a sunoramate Ieature, While nis 
companions would regard the latter as most important. 
It is probably on the basis of observations made on this trip that 
MYLIUS-ERICHSEN makes the very definite statement contained in his 
1,2,3 Amprup, Medd. om Grønland, vol. XLI, pag. 204—205. 
