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It appears to me more likely that the division of the diaries, etc. 
was made up on the Inlandice, from apprehension as to the numerous 
crevasses which they must have encountered there. It is more than 
possible that one or other of the party may have been in danger of fal- 
ling down a crevasse, or they may have feared to lose the sledge and 
all its load by a similar accident. In such cases, the natural course is 
to stow away on ones person such things as are considered most essen- 
tial; they would therefore divide the material in such a manner that 
even if one of the party should be lost, the others would yet have sufficient 
to ensure that the results of their work should not be altogether de- 
stroyed, if only one man came through. 
Assuming this theory to be correct, it is easily understood that 
nothing else was found on BRØNLUND save his journal, the copy of the 
map and the original land-sketches, as the rest would have been carried 
by the other two. This material found on BRØNLUND would be enough 
to give a fair idea of the happenings of the party and primarily the results 
of the splendid journey, consisting of the map of new land passed on 
the route. 
This theory, however, fails to satisfactorily answer the question: 
Where are the diaries? 
If Capt. Amprup’s supposition be correct, viz: that My tius-Ericu- 
SEN died two days after HøEG-HAGEN, BRØNLUND being away at the 
depot to fetch provisions, then it may well be imagined that he (Bron- 
LUND), after the conclusion of the journey over the Inlandice, still bore 
on his person the sketch-maps entrusted to his care, while the remainder 
was left behind in the tent in care of the other man. 
When BRØNLUND returned and found his friend MyLius-ERICHSEN 
dead and knew that absolutely nothing more could be done, then he 
he had only one desire — to get away, to try to reach home without any 
further waste of time. He might have thought that he had enough 
material on him to show the results of the journey, and would possibly 
not disturb his dead friend or — being a Greenlander — dared not 
touch a dead man. 
Whatsoever his thoughts he might be right in conjecturing that 
the material he had would serve for a time, and he might even have 
had hopes — and not wholly without reason — of his safe return to 
the ship, from where it would be an easy matter to fetch the journals 
in the coming spring. 
And when death was at last overtaking the brave and undaunted 
Greenlander, then still he thought of his dead friends and was desirous 
of explaining to those who might find his body, where the other two 
had died, and where the original fieldnotes were to be found. 
The location of this place seems not absolutely certain after Bron- 
LUNDS written directions, but he must have thought them satisfactory 
himself, and he died with the proud thought that he had saved the re- 
