QQ A. L. V. Manniche. 



Koch and the Greenlander Gabrielsen having shot the last 

 mentioned herd of musk-oxen with exception of a newborn calf, 

 this calf followed the two men like a dog to the tent which was 

 situated at a distance of about 8 kilometer from the hunting ground. 

 Without being the least afraid of the ferocious sledge dogs which 

 had just torn its little companions to pieces, the calf rubbed itself 

 conlidently against the legs of the men, displaying on the whole 

 the greatest fearlessness and affection. 



The locality on which the two herds of musk-oxen were found 

 was richly grown with grass. From a low, fertile coast country an 

 extensive mountain plateau rose about 15 kilometer from the sea. 



On the southern side of Hydefjord — lat. 83°10' n. — Koch and 

 Bertelsen saw^ some days later on a 500 meter high mountain pla- 

 teau several fresh traces of musk-oxen. Suddenly six sledge dogs 

 appeared, hunting an old bull which tumbled down at length into 

 a deep ravine, followed by its pursuers. The bull and five of the 

 dogs were killed in the fall, while the sixth dog remained unhurt 

 and returned to the sledges after the lapse of a few^ days. Before 

 that time it had devoured a part of the musk-ox. 



From a letter by Mylius-Erichsen, dated May 28*^ 1907, it ap- 

 pears that his sledge party at Danmarks Fjord — lat. 81" n. long. 

 29° w\ — had shot 21 musk-oxen. 



According to the diary left by Brønlund, the sledge party shot 

 later on — in Mylius-Erichsens Land near the coast — 6 adult 

 animals and 1 calf (June 16'^\), and a month later in the same place 

 an adult animal walking alone. 



So far the travellers to the north. 



On a rather large island near Teufelkap Jarner found on May 

 25*ь 1907 fresh traces in the snow of three musk-oxen. Not far 

 away the excrements of the animals were seen on snowless ground. 

 The locality was rather fertile, especially rich in grass. 



At the border of the inland ice, not far from Sælsøen, Lind- 

 hard found in April 1908 the skull of a very large musk-ox bull. 



On the large nunatak north of Dronning Louises Land — 60 

 kilometer up in the inland ice — Koch came across traces of musk- 

 oxen in many places, in May 1908. The vegetation was here rela- 

 tively rich, according to the statement of the narrator mostly like 

 that at Кар Bismarck (the ship's harbour). 



In the bottom moraine at the border of the inland ice, accord- 

 ing to Koch the Glyceria angustata was growing most luxuriantly. 

 Magnificent tufts of this species of grass were to be found every- 

 where; often the grass had been gnawed to the very root by musk-oxen. 



