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From August 16*^ till August 2P* some of the partakers of 

 the expedition made a boat expedition along the south coast 

 of Jameson Land, during this expedition several musk-oxen 

 were seen (communicated to me by Koch) ; perhaps some of 

 them had been seen from the ship before. 



Though we stayed only some few days in Fleming Inlet, 

 we saw also here several musk-oxen. On August 25*'' Ditlevsen 

 and Madsen met with a little troop of 4 a little inside Cape 



Fig. 13. 



(Photograph by Joh. Madsen). 



Biot; in the troop was a younger animal with short horns 

 (yearling calf). The bull rushed on against them, first against 

 Ditlevsen, then against Madsen, and was only at a distance of 

 15 ells from him when Ditlevsen shot a ball through its heart; 

 shortly after Madsen killed a cow, the others ran away over a 

 stony and not easily passable territory. — On the return they 

 were followed by a single bull (Fig. 13), he followed them for 

 half an hour quite near, observing each of their movements, 

 but did not attack, and at last paddled away. At Cape Seaforth 

 the bodies of 5 musk-oxen were seen that had been killed 



