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graphs Fig. 7 and 8 have been taken of it in August 1901, in the 

 Zoological Garden in Copenhagen; nov/ it has got horns, directed 

 slantingly forward ; not till later they will get the characteristic 

 form of those of the full grown bull (Fig. 3 and 4). 



During a stop Hartz and the author made from August 16*^^ 

 till August 19*^, we saw on the plateau at Vardekløft, on 

 August 18*^ a httle party of 6 musk-oxen (perhaps there were 

 more); they came walking along the edge of a fertile valley; 

 we cried to them ; they stopped a httle , but then went on 

 again. The day after I saw a single bull on the low fore- 

 beach, but he ran away in a hurry, probably he had seen men 

 before. 



Going on August 14*^ from Hurry Inlet along the south 

 coast of Jameson Land to Nordbugt, several flocks were seen 

 from the ship, one party counted 16, another at least 12, a 

 third 7 ; on account of the distance we could not make out 

 whether there were calves in the flocks; single bulls were also 

 seen in the country. 



On the return we went ashore in Jameson Land on August 

 15*^, at two o'clock p. m. The country here was looking like the 

 rest of the South coast of Jameson Land, mounting northward, 

 undulating, covered by formations of moraines, thickly covered 

 with stones. The vegetation consists mainly of heather with 

 willow and dwarf-birch ; round about several small moors with 

 lakes were found. Here Madsen succeeded in taking some 

 photographs of a herd in its different positions. The drawings 

 Fig. 9 — 12 are from these photographs, executed with much 

 fidelity to nature by my friend and fellow partaker of the 

 expedition, E.Ditlevsen, who himself attended the photographing^). 

 Fig. 9 shows the arrival of the party; it consisted of 12 adult 

 animals, 7 bulls, 5 cows, and 2 calves; it is the greatest 

 number of bulls, seen during the expedition in the same herd. 



Unfortunately I was not present myself, having got too far away. 



