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taken the precaution to strike the tents in order to save them. The 

 heavy drift-ice was of course everywhere carried far out to sea, so 

 that on the 4th of July we left Sermilik bound on our homeward 

 journey under as favourable conditions as we could well desire. 



Ilinguaki accompanied us in his umiak to the large ice-fjord 

 Ikersuak. He received from us as a parting gift a little Danish 

 "Dannebrog" flag with instructions how to use it. His foster-son 

 Kitigajak received from us so much ammunition for the rifle we had 

 given him, that the supply could last at least two, perhaps three, 

 years. 



In several places there were many scattered ice-bergs and vast 

 fields of ice which had recently frozen together. As a rule the ice- 

 bergs formed a barrier for the ice-floes within, and thus in some 

 places we were forced to work our way through heavy ice. The 

 journey, however, proceeded quickly; we sometimes rowed day and 

 night in order to be able to rest the next day and allow the sun 

 to dry the boat-skin, and also for the purpose of taking observations. 



Between Pamiagdlisak and Cape Løvenørn we met three boats 

 from the Angmagsalik district that had wintered at Umivik. The 

 people informed us , that there had been good hunting at Umivik 

 during the whole winter , so that the people had not suffered from 

 want of food ; amongst other game they had taken 8 bears. The 

 same storm which had driven the ice away from Sermilik had 

 carried the ice away from land not only here, but, as we after- 

 wards heard, along the whole coast, thus allowing the coast to be 

 passed everywhere. The natives were not at all surprised at being 

 able to travel along the coast so early in the summer, but declared, 

 on the contrary, that the last year had been a unusual bad ice- 

 year. They went in fact so far as to say that they had never before 

 experienced so much heavy ice as the previous year, and that that 

 was the reason why they would not travel with us up northwards. 



On the 16th July the two sections of the Expedition met at 

 Umanak and travelled together south. The drift-ice frequently 

 placed serious obstacles in our way, but never of long duration, 

 and we arrived again at Nanortalik on the 18tli August 1885. 



Results of the Expedition. — I shall now summarize briefly 

 the most important results of and information obtained by the 

 journeys and investigations of the Expedition in 1883 — 85. 



1. The map made by Graah of the East coast of Greenland 

 was revised and extended ; we had obtained fresh knowledge of the 

 fjords and mountains of the coast, as well as of the extension of 

 the Inland-ice and the glaciers. 



