Scottish geographical magazine . clude I will just tell you the sad story of the last voyageof Mylius Erichsen, Hagen, and Bronlund. As mentioned above, theyparted with Koch on May 28 at Peary Land. Mylius Erichsen and hiscompanions continued in a westerly direction, but got into a new return was thus delayed until the arrival of summer made itutterly impossible. They made an attempt to force their way through,but the sledges refused to move in the soft snow, so that they hadto give it up. THE DANISH NORTH-EAST GREENLAND EXPEDITION. 69 They remained at Danmaik fjord, but their good
Scottish geographical magazine . clude I will just tell you the sad story of the last voyageof Mylius Erichsen, Hagen, and Bronlund. As mentioned above, theyparted with Koch on May 28 at Peary Land. Mylius Erichsen and hiscompanions continued in a westerly direction, but got into a new return was thus delayed until the arrival of summer made itutterly impossible. They made an attempt to force their way through,but the sledges refused to move in the soft snow, so that they hadto give it up. THE DANISH NORTH-EAST GREENLAND EXPEDITION. 69 They remained at Danmaik fjord, but their good fortune had quitedeserted them, and they found no musk-oxen, only a few hares andgeese. And what was worst of all, they could not get away, but wereconfined to a very small district for the whole of the summer. In themiddle of the summer Bronlund writes in his diary, No food, no foot-gear, and several hundred miles to the ship. Our prospects are verybad indeed. However, with admirable energy they kept up their spirits, as shown. Cross erected in Dannmrk Harbour, in memory of Mylins Erichsen,Hagen, and Bronlund. by a little poem written at this period by Mylius Erichsen, and byHagens splendid sketch-maps. Their foot-gear was quite worn out bywalking on the stony ground, and they tried to make a substitute fromthe case of their theodolite, but had neither needles nor thread. Theytried to spare the lives of their dogs as long as possible, for only bymeans of the latter they could hope to reach tlie ship. Those must havebeen hard days, when they had to shoot the dogs and eat them—almostlike eating a dear comrade, for as such we came to look upon ourfaithful dogs. As soon as they were able to travel they went inshore 70 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. towards the bottom of the fjord, hoping to find meat for their remainingdogs, and fully realising the hopelessness of trying to go on with them intheir feeble condition. They went further and further inland, but still they found no
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