ch. xliiJ Danish Expeditions to Greenland 373 
extensive "nunatak," an important discovery. It received 
the name of " Dronning Luisa Land." The distance across 
the inland ice to the ''nunatak" was 24 miles. The party 
returned on the 3rd of April with collections of plants, 
rocks, and fossils. 
The expedition in search of their lost leader and 
his comrades started March 10th. It consisted of Captain 
Koch and Tobias, each with a sledge and team of ten dogs, 
and on March 19th they reached the depot on Lambert 
Land with great difficulty owing to fog, a head wind, 
and drifting snow. They found the snow-covered entrance 
to a small cave, and when some snow had been removed 
they could distinguish the outlines of a human being 
in a reindeer coat. It was Bronlund. At his feet was 
a bottle with his diary, and the chart sketches drawn 
by Hagen. The diary was in Eskimo and a single page 
was written in Danish. It announced that the two 
others perished in November in Seventy-nine Fjord 
after an attempt to return by the inland ice. "I arrived 
here," it ran, "by waning moon, and can go no further 
owing to frost-bites on feet and the darkness. Hagen 
died on the 15th of November, and Mylius about ten 
(two?) days later." Koch returned to the ship on 
March 26th. 
Bronlund's diary was translated by Dr Christian 
Rasmussen, lecturer in Greenlandic at Copenhagen, and, 
with the two records found bv Mikkelsen, the storv of 
the fatal but fruitful journey of the heroic Danes can 
be pretty clearly made out. They had been misled by 
Peary's erroneous map. On parting with Koch they 
drove away to the land in about 82 0 N. and first discovered 
a long fjord turning S.W. for nearly 150 miles which they 
named Danmark Fjord. They then entered another 
narrow fjord of about the same length running west 
and ending near the position where Peary placed his 
"Navy Cliff 1 /' As there was no Independence Bay, 
Erichsen called this fjord "Independence Sound." He 
1 Peary's point at the place he calls "Navy Cliff," where he says 
he saw the sea and called it "Independence Bay," is over a hundred 
miles from the sea or any bay. He may have seen the end of the long 
narrow fjord which Erichsen discovered. But his channel across Greenland 
does not exist, and there is continuous land between the position Peary 
gives to his Navy Cliff and his Heilprin Land to the north. 
