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loose, cocoons of flies were found in the skull, but as these 

 are very durable and may he conserved for a long time, they 

 are no hold for the estimation of the age of the skull. All 

 parts were very bleached. Three and a half hour later we returned 

 to try to catch a calf, if possible, together with Madsen and 

 the two sailors. Immediately at the mouth of the river bed we 

 found an old bull with a large cake of winter wool across his 

 back; one of his horns w^as half broken off, but as he was 

 looking very malicious, and we did not appreciate his attacking 

 us from behind on our passing, he was killed. When we came 

 up to the old place from where we had seen the troop, it was 

 away. The whole night we walked in the most beautiful 

 "weather over Jameson Land; it was a rather fertile country we 

 passed; now and then we found fens, that got their moisture 

 from the melt water of an old dirty snow drift, lying above; 

 farther in, curiously shaped sandstone formations peeped forth; 

 about them the country looked very barren and waste. We 

 only met with one single bull; galloping he rushed against us, 

 put his nose against the earth snuffing, and scraping with one 

 of his fore legs in the earth; thus he stood for some time; 

 then he rushed forth again, and in that way he approached us 

 at a distance of 20 ells; we dared not let him approach us 

 any more, we were quite still, looking at him, our guns ready. 

 If he had sprung at us again, he must die. But suddenly he 

 turned round, and hurried away as fast as he had come. Now 

 he crossed the river, ran up the opposite waste side, stones 

 and gravel rattled down round him at his running up; he 

 followed us almost an hour; now and then he set up loud 

 roars, followed by an energetic snorting, resounding far about, 

 at last he left us, and paddled his own ways. We had thus 

 seen 36 animals in all, and probably there had been at least 

 1 calf in the large herd. 



In the night between August 10*^ and August ll*'', we went 

 ashore on the Liverpool Kyst, in the place where so many 



