GREENLAND BY THE POLAR SEA 



expedition Wulff's death, and inform him of the collections 

 which still remained by the point of descent. But as we were 

 still very weary and I myself very weak, we rested for two days 

 by the shot reindeer. 



" Early in the morning of the 4th of September we heard 

 shots in our immediate vicinity — they came from one of the 

 Eskimos Knud Rasmussen had sent to our relief ; he had shot 

 a reindeer close to us. We got into immediate communication 

 with him. The day after we met another man, and on the 6th 

 we set out and reached at length the sledges and the depot of 

 provisions sent from Etah, which proved to be not far from our 

 reindeer camp. We reached it on the 7th of September, and 

 in the evening of the 10th we were in Etah, where immediately 

 I reported in detail to the leader of the expedition." 



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