Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-01-06

sacrificed to his mistaken notion of the
shape of the northern coast of Green
land. Instead of being practically a
smooth curve, as he thought, it pre-
sents great peninsulas and inlets, so
that his food supply gave out before
he could find his way back to his
base. His body, together with the
notes of his survey, were found later
by search party.
Hagen died on November Is and
Mylius- Erichsen ten days later, when
only few miles from the food cache.
Bronlund reached it in the moonlight,
and when the spring search party this
year found his body there it was evil
dent that he had lived for several
days after his arrival, but his strens tn
was too far gone for recuperation.
1t was wonderfully fortunate that
the bottle containing the survey sheets
was found slung around the neck of
Bronlund. Perhaps the great result
of this exploration would never have
been known if it were not for this for
tunate circumstance. 1t is thought
that Mylius-Erichsen probably did NIT
venture to carry his diaries and collec-
tions over the inland ice with him, but
left them in some safe depository at
Denmark Fiord, where they may ulti-
mately be recovered.
OF the land over which they passed
Achton Friis, the painter attached to
the expedition, wrote:
THE land over which we have Jour
neyed is desolate and dreary; there
are no splendid mountain-forms, such
as are seen from the coasts south of
Franz Joseph's Fjord and Scoresby
Sound, where mountains of a height
of 10000 feet stand straight out from
the sea. This was a gneiss landscape.
The vegetation was poor and shriv-
| elled-only scant heritage and a few
wild flowers besides the low Arctic
willow and the MOSES and lichens
And all this was confined to a narrow
strip along the coasts and shores of
the fjords. Outside of this narrow
strip was the eternal drifting sea-ice;
behind it the immense inland ice.
There was found, however, a COM
paratively rich animal-life. The musk,
OK is met now and then, many hares
and foxes thrive upon the miserable
stony soil, white grouse, ravens, and
hawks are seen in the summer; while
the land swarms with armies of wad-
ing and swimming birds. the bear
wanders in numbers along the coasts,
seals are plentiful. and the snort of the
walrus is heard in summertime. In
many places are to be found the ruins
or Eskimos' huts, showing that the
land was inhabited in ancient times by
these hunters. Remains of their stone
! houses and of their instruments we
found along the entire coast-froln
Cape Bismarck far into Independence
bay, but nothing at all upon Peary-
land. A poor and deserted land, but
a magnificent land; the sun flinging its
beams upon the ice in splendid col
ors-a rainbow come down to earth.
This brilliancy of colors reached
possibly its highest point in the won.
derful ice caves that we found. Whers
the river breaks through great valleys.
which are covered the whole year
round with snow and ice, the snow is
nollowed out, and formed into ice
caves OF over two kilometers in length
and 20 meters in height.
In the winter the river rushes
through these tunnels with great
Iorce; but in the autumn the springs
freeze and the river lies still in iti
BED. In some places the roof has
fallen down. and a dazzling sunlight,
renecung all shades OF color, peno
trates the opening and dazzles the
The streams OF the Himalaya mou1,
yeains wiz be engaged in the prossa
] work OF turning ,uhnal.