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our teams consisted of twenty-five dogs. When on May Ist we 
started from Nakkehoved in a northwesterly direction across Wandels 
Hav in order to look for Peary Land, our provisions consisted of: 
Men's provisions for 15 days 
Dogs” feed - 14 — 
Petroleum - 25 — 
With these supplies we might hope to reach Peary Land and 
back again to the depots laid out on the east coast of Kronprins 
Christians Land. During our stay in Peary Land we should mainly 
have to live on game. 
On May 6th we arrived, overworked and with starved and worn- 
out dogs, at the observation station K 6/5 (Pl. IV). Here the measuring 
of Peary Land was begun. 
(Extract of diary from 5/V, evening). 
Started at 9.10 p. m. 
Began by passing a big pressure-ridge which gave us a good 
deal of trouble. Togras broke a sledge pole. 2 photographs. It took 
us about an hour to advance the first 30 metres. The pack ice 
continued, it is true, and though it was no longer of the worst 
kind, it was still sufficiently fatiguing and troublesome. Advanced 
very slowly and damaged now one little thing, now another. Broke 
the wooden crutch which holds the wheel of the hodometer, and 
consequently had to stop the measuring of the distance. The dogs 
very played out and feeble. Towards 1 o’clock we had at last got 
through the pack ice, and now continued in the direction of the still 
remote Peary Land at an extremely slow pace, but over smooth and 
firm snow — the best going possible. With fresh dogs we might 
have sat on the sledges and driven 10 km per hour: now we walked 
beside the sledges and only advanced 4km per hour. In particular 
Togras’ dogs were very tired, so he asked to be permitted to lead 
with BERTELSEN’s strong bastard team, but failed altogether in the 
attempt. BERTELSEN’s team was not to be driven to lead. Then I 
began to lead with my team, and with fair success. Stopped at 
7a.m., after ten hours’ march. 
At the beginning of the march the wind was a feeble WSW. 
Thick haze, nearly fog. At times the land disappeared altogether 
from our sight. Later on the wind shifted suddenly to NW; still 
extremely feeble. The cover of clouds varied from 2—4, stratus and 
cumulo-stratus in the northern sky. As soon as we had camped, the 
wind freshened to degree of velocity 1. 
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