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tance to me, as I was so weakened by scurvy that I could not stand 
erect, but had to crawl from the sledge to the tent. But we hoped for 
certain that this enforced rest and the fresh meat, which we thought 
we were sure to get, would cure me so far that I could once more do 
my share of the work. 
On June 24th IVERSEN went north along the coast, looking for the 
depot, but he returned without having achieved any result. He had 
seen some ivory-gulls, but had not been able to shoot any of them. 
On June 25th we were lucky enough to find the depot, not very 
far from our tent. It had been covered by a small land-slide and was 
only discovered, when IVERSEN found a small stick and close to it a 
bear-cranium, so that he knew that the depot must be close at hand. 
The provisions in the depot were unfortunately very much damaged 
by water, which had got into the box through many holes, and all the 
crackers and other products of flour were scarcely anything but a lump 
of mould. Some tins of provisions were rusted through and the con- 
tents partly spoiled, but it was still a great addition to our stores, and 
we ventured to increase our daily ration a little. Of dog-feed we found 
almost 50 kg, but unfortunately of the same kind as before, which the 
dogs would only eat in extremities. 
Furthermore we found one box of clothes and a box containing a 
large number of odds and ends, most of which however became very 
useful. 
There were also 20 litres of kerosene, a box of shot-cartridges, a 
broken-down carbin, and at last we found two letters to Мутлоз-Евтсн- 
SEN, one from Косн and the other from Tuostrup. The latter con- 
tamed a much desired information — a complete list of what the depots 
contained from here and southward. 
On June 26th the weather became bad again with fog and rain, 
and IVERSEN had no other result to show for the work of many hours 
than one mallemuk. 
I saw a large flock of geese on June 27th, unfortunately at a time 
when IVERSEN was up the fjord looking for game. I tried to shoot the 
geese, which swam about in a large pond, near the shore, but my hands 
were so shaky from scurvy that I could not shoot straight. The weather 
was wretched, but it changed for the better on June 28th, when IVERSEN 
succeeded in shooting. a sea-gull. 
We only saw very few seals on the ice and of bears, which we had 
hoped to see in large numbers in this locality, we did not even see a trace. 
On land we found no trace of musk-ox, and we saw only one hare, which 
we shot. a 
In short, the hunting was as bad as could be, and as it was only 
too evident that we could not exist here, we made an attempt, on June 
29th, to get across to Hovgaard Island, taking only half of our out- 
fit on the sledge. It was, however, quite impossible at this early 
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