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he has also given an account of the melodies of the 
Eskimos of the east coast. 
The next important work was the discovery of the 
coast between Holm's furthest and the part surveyed 
by Scoresby. In 1891 the Hecla, a sealing vessel of Trons- 
berg, was hired, and an expedition commanded by Lieut. 
C. Ryder of the Royal Danish Navy left Copenhagen on 
the 7th June. Two months later she steamed into 
Scoresby Sound and anchored about a hundred miles 
beyond the entrance ; whence several excursions were 
made in boats. Ryder wintered in Scoresby Sound, and 
the whole of that complicated system of long branching 
fjords was discovered and explored. In the next season 
all progress southward near the coast was stopped by 
masses of floe ice along the shore. Ryder was obliged 
to work his way out to sea and, after touching at the 
point where Nordenskiold had landed, he returned to 
Denmark, the portion of coast south of Scoresby Sound 
alone remaining to be discovered. Excellent scientific 
work was done by his expedition. 
The next Danish work of exploration, by which at 
length the discovery of East Greenland from Cape Fare- 
well to Cape Bismarck was completed, is known as the 
Carlsbergfondet Expedition 1 . It was commanded by 
Lieut. G. Amdrup of the Royal Danish Navy. On a 
previous occasion, in 1884, Amdrup had reached Angmag- 
salik, where he wintered and did some good exploring 
work to the north in the following spring, examining the 
great Ikersuak glacier. On the 19th July, 1885, having 
mapped a considerable length of coast-line, and made 
large geological and ethnological collections, he had 
reached Agga Island in 67 0 32', so that it would be 
between this point and Scoresby Sound that he had to 
extend his survey. 
Lieut. Amdrup, in addition to the advantages of ex- 
perience, had a very talented and efficient staff. Hartz, 
who had been botanist with Ryder, was to take command 
when Amdrup was away on the boat voyage. The rest 
of the scientific staff consisted of Kruuse, another botanist, 
1 So called after a patriotic brewer named Carlsberg, who left his 
brewery to a Trust, the profits to be expended on scientific work. As 
the brewery is a lucrative business, the help to exploration from this 
source has been very important. 
