GREENLAND BY THE POLAR SEA 



tains ; immediately after their return Bosun was sent over to 

 the point where he and Hendrik parted on the evening of the 

 21st, but also he returned after a long absence without result. 

 Only then did we begin to feel anxious about Hendrik, and 

 incessantly one or two men went into the mountains, where we 

 tried to attract Hendrik 's attention by a thorough search and 

 also by shots and shouts. 



Bosun gave the following report : 



After a walk of ten or twelve hours into the fjord, during 

 which Wulff and Koch were constantly visible on the opposite 

 shore, Hendrik and he reached a large stone, where they lay 

 down to rest and to cook a hare. Not for a moment had they 

 doubted the direction they were to take, and they knew now 

 that they had reached the spot where they had to turn down- 

 wards to St. George Fjord. Especially was Hendrik, who had 

 been with Koch on the top of Dragon Mountain, well 

 orientated. 



They were both very hungry, but as they had only fresh 

 willow-shoots with which to light a fire under a little tin, they 

 did not succeed in making a fire and had to give up the cooking. 

 Whilst sitting there, neither of them anxious to eat the raw 

 hare, Hendrik fell asleep. Bosun was anxious to get in touch 

 with us on the ice as soon as possible, and he roused Hendrik to 

 tell him that he intended to continue now. After that he went 

 down to the river, which was large and broad, but he found 

 with ease a ford where the water reached no higher than to the 

 ankles. On one of the shores of the river he sighted some 

 hares, which he pursued. Here he turned round to look for 

 Hendrik and saw that he stood upright by the side of the stone 

 where he had been sleeping. Hendrik had at that time a bag 

 of four hares, and was yet in the possession of thirty cartridges, 

 and as Bosun assumed that he would continue the hunt down- 

 ward along other paths, he went towards the fjord in the direc- 

 tion in which he and Hendrik had just seen Wulff and Koch. 

 Through a clough he reached a large stony highland which led 

 straight down to the fjord, and here we met him about an hour 

 after his arrival. 

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