18 G. Amdrip. 



his course southwards in the following days along the edge of the ice, 

 hoping always to lind an opening in the ice which he could follow and 

 thus attain to his highest wish, to land on the east coast. On August 

 20th he again came in sight of the coast at ca. 64°59' N. lat. He suc- 

 ceeded in reaching in to about 10 miles from the coast, but the ice 

 then became so dense, that not even a jolly boat could get through it. 

 Autumn was пол\' approaching, however, and from the 25th one storm 

 followed on another, so that it was only with the greatest difficulty, 

 that Egede managed to bring the yacht in a miserable state into 

 Holmens Havn in Iceland on September 18th. On the 22nd Egede 

 again ran out of Holmens Havn and made for Havne Fjord, where 

 it was tiis intention to pass the winter. On the 27th he anchored here, 

 after being nearly lost on the way in a terrible storm from the west. 



On April 1st of the folloAving year already Egede again set out to 

 sea, but was obliged to make in for Dyre Fjord on the 23rd of the same 

 month owing to a leakage made by the ice. Here he was joined by 

 the cutter "Hvidfisken". On May 8th both vessels left Dyre Fjord, 

 Hvidfisken led by Egede and the yacht by Rothe. On May 17th 

 they came in sight of the east coast of Greenland at ca. 65°16' N.lat., 

 and on the 18th at ca. 65°54' N. lat., but the continuous sheet of drift- 

 ice only allowed them to come 25 — 30 miles from land, thus further 

 off than in the previous year. On May 28th Egede ran into Havne 

 Fjord with both vessels to make some small repairs. In the course 

 of the summer he made three more attempts to reach the east coast 

 of Greenland, but ice and storms prevented it and in these attempts 

 he did not even manage to see the coast. On October 9th he left Havne 

 Fjord and sailed home to Denmark. 



This brought the exploring of Greenland's east coast in the 18th 

 century to a close. In spite of the great efforts which had been made 

 in the 100 years that had passed, extremely little was added to the 

 previous knowledge of the east coast of Greenland. The Dane Peder 

 Olsen Walløe was still the only one who had journeyed on the east 

 coast and no further north than to 60°56' N. lat. None of the numerous 

 sailing expeditions had succeeded in reaching in to the coast and 

 knowledge of this north of 60'^56' N. lat. was thus restricted to a number 

 of scattered observations taken outside the ice belt by vessels which 

 had sighted the coast. 



In the course of the 19th century ail this was completely changed. 

 Numerous expeditions were fitted out and the majority returned 

 home with excellent results; by the end of the century the whole of 

 the east coast from Cape Farvel to Cape Bismarck (ca. 77°01') had 

 been travelled over and in part explored. 



The first white man to set foot on the east coast in the lUtli century 

 was the German K. L. Giesecke. In 1806 he set out from the south- 

 ernmost establishment on the west coast anfl advanced in a women's 



