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lat. 75° N. If the above mentioned facts are compared with this, 

 it will be seen that several things indicate that the musk-ox 

 has lived in East Greenland for long times almost in its present 

 territory, perhaps in changing multitudes, and that the time of 

 its immigration cannot be decided by way of the present infor- 

 mations. 



Already the first day on which we went ashore in Green- 

 land, Sabine Island, on July 11*^, musk-oxen were met with. 

 They were walking on the left side of a river bed, between Ger- 

 mania Mountain and Hasen Mountain. In several places the 

 ground was very moist and soft, in other places rather hard 

 and dry, the vegetation poor, a few willows were found. One bull 

 and two heifers were walking together, all of them were killed. The 

 bull that was carried on board whole, weighed more than 600 

 pound without the skin. Skeletons and skins are now in the 

 Zoological Museum in Copenhagen together with different parts 

 of the entrails. Besides these three animals a single bull was 

 seen in the neighbourhood. Also Nathorst found the musk-ox 

 (1^) in Sabine Island the year before. 



On July 14*^ we went ashore at Cape Borlase Warren ; the 

 country was exceedingly sparely covered, traces of the musk- 

 oxen were seen. 



The traces, seen South of Scoresby Sund, have been 

 mentioned already. 



From July 31^*, till August 21'*, we were staying in Scoresby 

 Sund, mostly in Hurry Inlet, where the ship was lying at the 

 Fame Øer, and during that time a great many musk-oxen 

 were seen. 



On July 3P*, we went ashore 5 kilometers North of Cape 

 Stewart, we were 9 men in all; through a river bed most of 

 us ascended the plateau that is precipitously ended towards 

 Hurry Inlet by the steep Neill's cliffs. Towards the edge of 

 the plateau the ground is very barren, consisting of nothing 

 but sandy, gravelly and stony soil, covering the subjacent sand- 



