94 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
map is no reason for contesting their claim to this discovery, especially 
when taking into consideration the existing proofs that HøEG-HAGEN 
himself was entirely in agreement with My tius-ERIcHSEN on this point. 
This is distinctly indicated by the angles on the sketch map (PI. V), 
by the drawing made on the 1/, of the head of the fjord (Pl. IX), by 
the direction of the Marie Sophie Glacier as drawn (Pl. IV) and finally 
by the words “Independence Fjord” on the same map. 
Horc-Hacen could naturally not suppose that his rough sketch 
maps would come to serve as the basis of future maps of these northerly 
regions, and probably considered Marie Sophie Glacier too insignifiant to 
warrant a special survey, thinking it sufficient to indicate on the map 
and drawings of the land that the supposed sound did not exist. 
The return journey was probably commenced on the morning of 
the 5th. As to this day, nothing can be said with certainty, as Bron- 
LUND makes no special reference to it in his diary. HoEG-HAGEN’S 
sketch map (PI. V), however, gives us one piece of information, viz: 
that the sledge party had left Varde Point and moved up to Cape Harald 
Moltke, from where some few angles were taken, and from where it was 
possible to determine the approximate outline and extent of Bronlund’s 
Fjord. Mytius-ErIcHsEN’s report gives some information concerning 
the backward route; he writes of this part of the journey, as follows: 
“On the way out through the fjord, we discovered and explored 
“two side fjords — “Bıonlund’s Fjord” towards the northwest, and “Hagen’s 
“Fjord” towards the south-east, and built a cairn (with report) at the 
“last-mentioned. Also discovered old tent-rings”’. 
It will be seen from this that Hagen’s Fjord was passed unsurveyed 
on the outward journey, and the Eskimo tent-rings on Cape Peter Hen- 
rik were probably found at the time when the fjord was partly surveyed. 
The sledge-party must presumably have moved in а south-easterly 
direction from Bronlund’s Fjord, until they reached the coast of Green- 
land once more, following the same down to Danmark’s Fjord. 
The greater part of Hagen’s Fjord was, however, in all probability 
not explored at this time, but surveyed later in the course of trips made 
from the summer camp westward across country, as HøEG-HAGEN's 
sketch-map (Pl. У) shows angles from Himmelbjerget and from a cairn 
on the east coast of the fjord, Hagens Varde (Slutstenen). The angles 
embrace all prominent parts of the coast, which would not have been 
necessary, had the fjord been explored previously by sledge, and in 
view of the very difficult conditions under which they had to work 
during the summer, it is hardly likely that MYLIUS-ERICHSEN and his 
comrades would have undertaken the arduous task of carrying their 
heavy surveying instruments some twenty miles over the country, if it 
had not been for the purpose of surveying the last stretch of the coast. 
Everything seems to indicate that the return-journey from Cape 
