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Eskimo Naze, moreover, they came upon distinct traces of a whole 

 Eskimo settlement and it was consequently necessary to pitch the 

 tents there. Almost all went to work to collect either Eskimo relicts, 

 such as darts, snow-knives, fragments of sledges and kaiaks etc. or 

 fossils, of which many occurred here even in the sandstone used by 

 the Eskimo as building material. The collections were deposited 

 in a depot at the spot, to be fetched on the return journey. 



In the evening, when all was ready to continue the journey, a 

 bear arrived. The hunt was very difficult in the screw-ice and lasted 

 a long time. Several dogs were wounded by the bear and one of 

 Koch's dogs was shot by the same bullet that killed the bear. 



April 25th. It was not until 3 a. m., that a start could be made; 

 the dead bear was carried on Brønlund's sledge. At midday a halt 

 Avas made on the ice south of Amdrups Land about 15 kilometers 

 west of Henrik Krøyers Islet. The distance traversed was 4.3 kilo- 

 meters. 



The bear was dropped behind a hummock half a kilometer before 

 the halt, and here it was cut up without trouble from the dogs. 



April 26th. Mylius-Erichsen now resolved, that G. Thostrup 

 and Wegener should not continue further than to the coast, where 

 they were to make a depot (80°43') and then return home. On the 

 return journey G. Thostrup — like Bistrup earlier — was to utilise 

 the opportunity to complete the chart, as Koch had only been able 

 naturally to survey the outer coast during the forced march. 



At 10 in the evening the 1st and 2nd parties said good-bye to 

 G. Thostrup and Wegener. Ргелаои81у Wegener had exchanged 

 his good sledge with the inferior one of Bertelsen and given a good 

 dog to Hagen in exchange for one of his worst. G. Thostrup had 

 also given a dog to Koch. 



The screw-ice, which lay close to land from Sophus Müllers Naze, 

 forced the sledges up on to a rough and unpleasant ice-foot. This 

 led to Brønlund discovering distinct traces of earlier Eskimo settle- 

 ment however; tent-rings, meat-depots, remains of sledges and im- 

 plements etc. Mylius-Erichsen was even of the opinion, that one 

 of the ruins had been an Eskimo winter-house. At this settlement 

 also the sandstone was full of fossils, especially bivalves and corals. 

 In the course of half an hour a very considerable collection had been 

 made and deposited at the place to await their return. Mylius- 

 Erichsen, however, specially requested Koch not to take the Eskimo 

 objects, if he should arrive first at the tenting place. 



Shortly after the settlement had been passed, the two parties 

 drove out over Antarctic Bay and pitched their tents on the north 

 side. This was on the 27th. 



April 28th. At .S in the morning the journey was continued east- 

 ward along a high ice-wall. Some kilometers further on, the edge of 



