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such ones are not known. Nevertheless it is known by the 

 Greenlanders there and appears in their legends (Holm) and 

 с 70 years ago a man is said to have met with a living 

 reindeer, according to the informations, received by Poulsen. 

 The Greenlanders, Graah hved together with, in 1829 — 30 on 

 the southern part of the east-coast, did not know^ anything of 

 the reindeer, and on his showing to some of the inhabitants 

 of the island of Aluik (c. 64V2° lat. N.) a fur-cloak of reindeer skin, 

 they thought it was made of a sort of dog skin. 



At the old Eskimo hamlets at Scoresby Sund and farther 

 northward, remains of reindeer, especially the horns, that were 

 used in several ways, were exceedingly common. 



Oyibos moscbatus Zimmermann, musk-ox. 



Since the second German arctic expedition under Captain 

 Koldewey, first found the Musk-Ox in Shannon Island on August 

 16, 1869, and during the autumn of 1869 till i^ugust 1870 

 showed its existence northward until lat. 77° N., southward till 

 Franz Joseph's Fjord, it has been observed several times, both 

 by whalers and by the different scientific expeditions , Ryder 

 1891—92, Nathorst 1899, Kolthoff .1900, that have later on 

 visited the coast. Ryder found it in the regions round Scoresby 

 Sund, Nathorst besides in the great complex of inlets, connected 

 with Franz Joseph's Fjord. 



By these investigations it has become an established fact, 

 that the musk-ox appears generally on the east coast of Green- 

 land, from Scoresby Sund northward, and it is found not only 

 on the mainland itself, but it has also wandered out to several 

 of the greater and smaller islands near this: Kuhn Island, 

 Shannon Island, Sabine Island, Pendulum Island, Clavering 

 Island and Ymer's Island, still in some of these it is perhaps 

 only found in summer (W. Peters) , thus in Sabine Island, 

 Pendulum Island, and on the east coast of Shannon Island. 



Peary and Astrup having observed the musk-ox at Inde- 



