round the station-house and the ship, and in fact, one night a 

 lemming had even gone on board the ship (Bay, i. c, p. 1 5) ; 

 its traces were also commonly seen in the snow, during the 

 first sledge-drive, from March 27 till April 21, 1882 (Ryder, 

 I.e., p. 97); its traces were seen at Cape Stewart; and in Hold 

 with Hope, numerous signs of the presence of the lemming 

 were found, but no animal was found; nests were also found 

 here, lying on the ground. Nathorst found signs of the pre- 

 sence of the lemming in a few places: in Clavering Island, at 

 Cape Weber, in the Walrus Island, and at Hold with Hope, but 

 caught only one, at Sophie Fjord on August 16, 1899. 



During the ship expedition, they met with the lemming in 

 several places. Already on the first day we were on the coast, 

 Amdrup caught a living lemming in Sabine Island, on July 11, 

 in the ruin of an old Eskimo house near Germaniahafen; 

 at Cape Borlase Warren, several signs of the presence of the 

 lemming were seen. Also south of Scoresby Sund, the lem- 

 ming was observed as far down as Cape Dalton. Here 2 were 

 caught on July 19, respectively 600' and 1000' above the level 

 of the sea, by Deichmann's excellent dog Janette , that turned 

 out to be the greatest lemming-hunter of the expedition. The 

 two lemmings were put into the same cage as the one, caught 

 by Amdrup, in Sabine Island, but during the night one of them 

 died, and its companions devoured a little of it. 



Ditlevsen found, on July 26, in Turner Sund, in a stone 

 heap where the ermines lived, a lemming, killed by the ermines. 

 At the same time. Deichmann and Koch caught 4 on the south 

 side of Manby Halvø. The three almost totally devoured 

 the one that died. Also in Hurry Inlet a lemming was seen ; 

 in Jameson Land, one was caught at Forsteningskløften 

 on Aug. 14. On the south coast of Jameson Land, where we 

 went ashore on August 16, numerous holes, with sand recently 

 thrown up outside, and fresh traces in the sand were seen; in 

 Fleming Inlet several lemmings were caught on August 26, on 



