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would be dessicated or worn off here where no shelter is to 

 be had and the blocks themselves scarcely rise 5 cm above 

 the bottom. The more wonderful then it is to find in this na- 

 ked rocky-flat formation so many musk-oxen as was the case. 

 I saw myself two flocks ; others of the landing party saw two 

 other flocks and some single bulls, and in the neighbourhood 

 of this place Deichmann later on killed 14 of these animals. 

 It is, however, an unquestionable fact that the musk-ox chiefly 

 feeds on the leaves and young shoots of Salix arctica, and 

 this is just the place where it is likely to find them in the 

 greatest extent, and I am apt to think that it takes to the 

 rocky-flats in winter also, because the snow-coating is thin 

 up here and accordingly easily broken through. In summer it 

 is not found in the lowlands of Klit dalen, and even the 

 luxuriant grass-meadows around the ponds upon the Liverpool 

 Land were only sparely grazed. The clipping of the grass 

 we saw here was irregular, was found closest to the water, 

 always accompanied by great quantities of excrements of geese, 

 and therefore surely due to these animals. On the contrary, 

 great quantities of the manure of musk-oxen together with 

 plain vestiges of grazing were found upon the flat abunding in 

 Salix and Dryas at Jameson Land east of Nathorst Fjæld, 

 and in the brook-valley north of this луеге seen some lone 

 animals. 



From the Dinosaur Cleft the voyage was carried on to 

 the Fame Islands, where we lay at anchor from the 1*^ to the 

 10^^^ of August. 



Fame Islands (Chr. Kruuse). 



The Fame Islands are a small group of little islets with 

 low rocks, among which are low, nearly horizontal flats con- 

 sisting of clay and gravel. The single rocks have evidently 

 been separate islets at a time when the height of the water 



