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were observed along the coast north of ca. 78° N. L., when the 

 sledge parties chanced upon open water or drove over thin ice; 

 further their remains were found at the Eskimo settlements, which 

 lie scattered along the whole coast (more numerous at some places 

 than at others), except when these settlements were so much covered 

 by snow that they escaped attention. Between ca. 76° and ca. 78° N. L. 

 the investigations on the seals extend over practically the whole 

 year, and that especially round about the ship's habour. 



In this account it is superfluous to mention all the places 

 where seals (and whales) were seen, killed or their bones found 

 in North-East Greenland; so much the more since several of 

 them {Trichechus rosmarus, Phoca barbata, P. foetida) are found, as 

 known, far up in the north, either in the sea outside or on the 

 coasts, elsewhere in similar latitudes, and they naturally have a 

 corresponding distribution on the north-east coast of Greenland, so far 

 as the special natural conditions, which' some {Phoca barbata) require, 

 are to be found. With regard to others {Phoca groenlandica, Cysto- 

 phora cristata, Balaena sp., Balaenoptera sp., Monodon monoceros), we 

 know so much about their distribution at North-East Greenland from 

 earlier observations, that the results of Danmark-Expedition, on 

 which they were only seen on the voyage in to and from the 

 land or their bones ^ found here or there, can only serve as a sup- 

 plement, and at the most give a more precise northern limit than 

 that hitherto known for a few, not high-arctic species {Orca gla- 

 diator. Globiceps mêlas). 



1 All the bones brought home, both those washed up and those found in the 

 Eskimo ruins, have been determined by Vice Inspector H. Winge, who intends 

 to give a detailed account of the mammals and birds, whose bones were found 

 at the settlements of the Eskimos. 



