214 G. Amdhüp. 



part had been shot on the land inside Pinseskæret on the so-called 

 Sjællands Slette. 



On May 2Sth at 7 p. m. the two parties, separated iie\ei' to meet 

 again. Koch's party proceeded homewards, while Mylius-Erichsen 

 and his companions went westwards in order to reach Cape Glacier 

 and thus link up the connection with the points reached by Peary. 



On Maij 29th they drove into Hagens Fjord ^ in the belief that 

 this fjord was a continuation of Independence Bay (see Pi. V and VIII). 



On June 1st they sighted the glacier in the head of Hagens Fjord 

 and still believed that they found themselves in Independence Bay 

 and that it was the head of this bay they saw (see PI. IX). 



They have probably not discovered their mistake till the th-sl 

 days of June when they rounded Gape Peter Henrik un llie western 

 side of Hagens Fjord. 



To understand why Mylius-Erichsen tirsl took Danmarks Fjord 

 and then Hagens Fjord to be Independence' Bay, it must be remem- 

 bered that on all his charts - from these regions round here Peary 

 states that from Academy Glacier the coast bends almost in the direc- 

 tion S.E., whereas according to what has been found out by the Dan- 

 mark Expedition, it turns on the contrary almost in the direction N.E. 



As the entrances to Danmarks Fjord and to Hagens Fjord lie 

 further north than the Academy Glacier and as Mylius-Erichsen 

 was entitled to suppose from Peary's chart, that he would come to 

 Academy Glacier from a point S.E. of the glacier it was quite natural 

 that Myliu.s-Erichsen steered into these fjords which, as far as he 

 could see, first went southwards and then turned towards the S.W. 

 Mylius-Erichsen, who was each time of o])inion that he found him- 

 self in Independence Bay, thus assumed that this Bay would go further 

 south than the .academy Glacier and I hat it would at the same time 

 turn west and north-westwards up to the Glacier; in other words, 

 that it would describe a curve between the mouth of the fjord and 

 Academy Glacier. In this way everything would lit inwitli Peary's charts. 



This mistake on Peary's chart thus iiecame of extremely fateful 

 importance to Mylius-Erichsen and his companions. For it was 

 owing to this long journey into Danmarks Fjord and Hagens Fjord, 

 that their retreat was begun loo late and had to be given up on ac- 

 count of the comparatively sudden melting of the snow. .\nd we 

 know that their enforced summer in the north led to their death. 



On June 5th they have undoubtedly been near Cape Grundloven^ 



' It stiould be mentioned that this report was written before (Captain KixArt 

 Mikkelsen returned home from his expedition to the N. E. coast of Greenland. 



^ Robert E. Peary: "Norttiward over the Great Ice", Vol. I. p. 'ЛЪ'2. "Field 

 worlv of tlie Peary Arctic club 1898 — 1902", Bulletin of the Geographical Society 

 of Philadelphia, Vol. IV, \o. 1, January 1904. "Nearest the I'oli'"', The accom- 

 panying chart. 



' June ."itli is the Danish "GrundloYsdag" (Constitution-day). 



