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The walrus was observed in quantities round about Danmarks 

 Havn and further north as far as He de France, (where its bones 

 were also common) and on the thin ice at Amdrups Land (81° 

 10' N. L.). At the latter place, as mentioned later, a male walrus was 

 observed in May 1907, and bones were also found on Eskimo- 

 næsset (80° 24' N. L.). In Jøkelbugten and north of ca. 81° 10' N. L. 

 it was not seen — but it is quite probable that it occurs along the 

 northern part of the east coast where there is a good deal of open 

 water in the summer (see Introduction). 



Fig. 'Л. Three walrus coming up through the thin ice along the coast at Snenæs 

 /il 1907. (Note the unbroken old ice in the fjord.) 



It is chiefly in the summer time (June — September), that the 

 walrus is seen in the fjords of North-East Greenland; they are seen 

 earliest in the year on the outer coast (beginning of May), and it is 

 also here that we meet them immediately after the beginning of the 

 dark period (end of October), — naturally because the ice here 

 breaks up earliest and forms latest. That it remains within the 

 fjords some time after the formation of the thin ice, appears from 

 the fact, that on ''/lo 06 a walrus came up through a hole which 

 had been made in the ice at Danmarks Havn (the depth of water 

 was here 11 m.). Further, I am of the firm belief that it was a 

 walrus I heard blowing under an ice-berg at the same place on 



