42 A. L. V. Manxiche. 



A little more to the north, the same travellers came across nu- 

 merous traces of foxes on the pack-ice, as a rule flanking traces of 

 bears. 



Notes from Koch's journey to the north: 



1^4 07. Lamberts Land. Lat 79°10'n. Several traces of foxes 

 on the ice. 



28/4 07. Lat. 80^" 80'^*n. A great many traces of foxes at "Mal- 

 lemukfjeldet" and the other bird cliffs here. 



^^/r. 07. Lat. 82°50' n. Bertelsen observed to-day traces of foxes 

 on the ice. 



i^/r. 07. Lat. 83°10'n. Koch saw many fox traces on the ice. 



2^/5 07. Lat. 82°30' n. Near some shot musk-oxen Koch saw a 

 fox standing. It was evident that many foxes had visited the killed 

 animals a little before. 



4g 07. Lat. 80°57' n. A fox fled from the carcass of a seal, left 

 by a bear. 



^^le, 07. "Mallemukfjeldet". Here are still more traces of foxes 

 now than during our visit in April. Some well-kept Eskimo fox 

 traps were found on the shore. 



The notes of Lindhard from the north-going sledge drive in the 

 autumn 1907. 



^*/io 07. On a glacier in the neighbourhood of some up-screwed 

 ice with open cracks several fox traces were standing. Lat. 79°50' n. 



^^/lo 07. "Mallemukfjeldet". At the depot here two foxes were 

 seen, a white and a blue one. 



^^17 07. Lat. 80°10' n. A blue fox was seen walking on the 

 sea ice. 



During his journey home Lindhard found — between "Lam- 

 berts Land" and "Nordre Depot" — the old sledge track flanked by 

 a great many fresh traces of foxes. 



From the diary left by Brønlund it appears that the fox has 

 been rather common in "Mylius-Erichsens Land", the meat depots 

 of the travellers here having been pillaged by foxes repeatedly. 



In spring 1908 two journeys were undertaken to the inland 

 ice and the large nunatak "Dronning Louises Land", lying 40 

 to 60 kilometers from the edge of the ice. Strangely enough 

 no traces of foxes were found on these journeys. "Dronning 

 Louises Land" was inhabited, however, by a great many lem- 

 mings, judging from the foot-prints seen. Probably it must be 

 considered likely that the far-strolling arctic fox will haunt even 

 these out-of-the way lying places, paying short visits there at 

 any rate. 



In North-East Greenland — as in other places — the arctic fox 



