Report on the Danmark expedition to the north-east coast. 17 



compelled by his companions to return. Unce mure W alloe was 

 obliged to overwinter on the way, in Agluitsok Fjord on the west 

 coast, before he reached the then southernmost colony, Frederikshaab. 

 on June 2ôth 1753. Thus, so far as we know, Walloe was the first 

 white man to set foot on the east coast of Greenland and he will, there- 

 fore, always hold a prominent place among the explorers of Greenland. 



In the light of our present knowledge it is not to be wondered 

 at, that Walloe found no ruins or remains of Osterbygden on the east 

 coast. But at that time the only elTect of Walloe's journey was, 

 that Osterbygden was assumed to have lain further north and the 

 expeditions sent out in the years 178t) — 87 were thus direited to the 

 coast about the 65th degree of latitude as goal. 



The first of these, in the year 1786, was commanded by Lieut. - 

 Captain Poil de Löwenörn '. With the old whaling vessel. Grev 

 Ernst Schimmelmann, he sailed from Copenhagen on May 2nd to Rey- 

 kjavik i>n Iceland, where he was joined by the 2nd ship of the exped- 

 ition, the yacht "Den nye Prove". 



Löwenörn left Iceland on June 27tli. (Jn July on! Iir sighted 

 the east coast of Greenland at ca. 65 to 66" N. lat., but on the very 

 same day was forced eastwards by the drift-ice. From the 8th till 

 the 23rd of July Löwenörn lay in the fjords on the north-west coast 

 of Iceland, waiting for an improvement in the ice conditions. But 

 when he again ventured out on the 23rd, the ice was even worse than 

 before, for which reason he gave up further attempts at reaching the 

 east coast of Greenland that year. On July 31st he anchored with 

 both his vessels in Havne Fjord in Iceland. 



The second commander of the expedition. First-lieutenant С F. 

 Grove, who had previously been in command of the yailit. imw again 

 went on boarti the "Grcv Ernst Schimmclmann" and the command 

 of the yacht was given to .Secoml-lieutenant C)iKrsTiA.\ Tukstuup 

 Egede, a son of Bishop P. Egede, to who.se unwearying energy the 

 expedition of Löven<')kn owefl its existence. As second in command 

 Egede had Second-lieutenant С A. Rothe. 



On the morning rtf .\ugu8t Hth Löwenörn left Havne Fjord to 

 sail for Denmark and in the evening of the same day Egede set 

 off to make one more attem{)t that year to reach in to the east coast 

 of Greenland *. 



On \ugust 16th he sightefl the east coast of Greenland at ca. 

 6ô'24' iN. lat., but as the ice prevented him from reaching in he held 



r«ai II further north th.in in. tio°2K N. lat. .See W. .\. »Iraaii: "Un<l<TS«gr!lse.s- 

 HfJM- til (»slkysten af (Irtmlanfl, udfort i .Varen.- 1Й21+— 1к:И", pp. 71 7l' Kjii- 

 benhavn 1832 and Meddelelser om Orenland, Bd. IX, p. 162. 



' (irttnland.t historiski' Minilesma-rker. Bd. III, pp. 761- î.')4. 



' Hi.r.nr.. "Itej.sebwknvel.He til Osler* 'ГипКиии ( ipdaK'*'!"', ^^^r^^^^Ц(\•^ i 

 .Van-no 17кв and Н7". Kjubenhavn 17Hi». 



