96 Ejnar MIKKELSEN. 
ment superfluous. One thing, however, may be pointed out; the sur- 
veying which they carried out under such difficult conditions was a mag- 
nificent and probably unparalleled piece of work, hardly to be appre- 
ciated save by those who have themselves visited the spot and seen the 
many cairns set up on the surrounding hills for this purpose. 
We have here the evidences of unexampled energy and devotion; 
it is only to be regretted that the detailed results of the surveys, made 
at such a sacrifice, should have been lost. 
On the 8th of August, as already mentioned, the party were forced 
to abandon their summer camp, and the journey southwards, into Dan- 
mark’s Fjord, proved a very toilsome and difficult piece of work. 
JORGEN BRONLUND gives a fairly detailed account of this part of 
the journey in his diary; My rus-Ericusen’s report, found at Ulve- 
bakkerne, while it tells us but little that is new as to this section of the 
route, yet serves to confirm BRØNLUNDS statements. He writes: 
“Since we left our summer camp, about 44 miles from here, on 
“August 8th, we have been obliged to kill 7 dogs as food for ourselves 
“and the remaining dogs, while we were 15 days out on the sea ice 
“our passage stopped two miles from land, by the water from the melting 
“ice. At last, on August 25th, we reached land, and shot 4 hares”’. 
This must have been somewhere in the neighbourhood of Cape 
Kronborg; from here they sledged along the coast, after having depo- 
sited everything not absolutely indispensable in a cache. 
They now began to find game once more, and as the weather was 
growing colder, they were able to work their way on southward, although 
progress was but slow. 
MyLIUus-ERICHSEN continues his report as follows: 
“By short journeys day by day since then, we have moved our camp 
“altogether some 32 miles into Danmark’s Fjord, constantly impeded in 
“our advance to good hunting grounds by mild weather, impassable 
“new ice, and lastly by open water from coast to coast”. 
They had reached Ulvebakkerne at 81°25’ N., before the winter 
ice in the fjord broke up, forcing them to abandon the sledge, with all 
their gear, on the coast, after which they: 
“Walked on foot over the hills, followed by the dogs, some 32 miles 
“further into the fjord, to Sjælland’s Sletten, shot in all 15 young 
“ptarmigan, 15 hares, 1 wolf, and 8 musk-oxen (2 bulls, 3 cows and 3 calves). 
“Camped for a week under open sky, cooked our food by means of 
“drift-wood, of which we found quantities along the coast, fed up the 
“dogs, and transported the meat and tallow here to this place? which 
“is the southermost spot in the fjord, we have been able to reach with 
“the sledge ... Imagine we have had down to 15° of cold (Centigrade) 
“during the past week”. 
1 Ulvebakkerne. Note by author. 
