320 I. P. Kocu. 
Later on when we arrived with the sledges, an ubik (snow owl) 
flew across the carcases of the musk oxen. 
Already far out to sea we had been able to see that the rather 
low foreland was in a great measure covered with snow, whereas 
the mountains seemed in part bare of snow. As we approached land 
on the southern side of Herlufsholms Næs") (headland), so that we 
should have been forced to make a detour in an easterly direction, 
if we were first to go to the shore to establish a depot, I resolved, 
after having consulted with Tosias, to try to sledge across the 
headland. 
My secret thought — undoubtedly shared by Tobias — was that 
we should at once be able to procure some game. I was: chiefly 
thinking of hares, as according to the statement of the Eskimo, who 
in 1900 accompanied Peary, there was no other game to be found 
in this place. 
As soon as we reached land, we established a depot consisting of: 
1) Provisions from sledge boxes and Knorr soups, in all for about 
ten days”) 
2) Two boxes of dog pemican | 
One box of greaves J 
3) A good deal of personal property, skis, twelve quarts of petroleum, 
one quart of spirit. 
Dog’s feed for five days. 
We continued the journey with: 
1) Provisions from sledge-boxes for about eight days”). 
2) Six quarts of petroleum and a small jar of spirit, in all fuel for 
ten days. 
3) Two boxes and a half of dog pemmican | Dogs’ feed for sim eee 
One box of greaves | 
4) Tent, three sleeping bags. 
The total weight, exclusive of sledges, about 400 Ibs, or about 
130 Ibs to each sledge. 
Travelling as light as that we ought, with fairly tolerable sled- 
ding, to have been able easily to make 60—70 km a day with fresh 
dogs; but with our worn-out and half-starved dogs we could hardly 
reckon on making more than half the distance, and consequently 
our prospecis were by no means very rosy. If we got no game, we 
1) The name is not retained but was replaced by Herlufsholms Strand (H. shore) 
and Kap Eiler Rasmussen. 
*) A comparison with the list of provisions of May 1st (р. 315) shows that we had 
put ourselves on half rations, a necessary but rather dangerous measure when 
setting out on a long and fatiguing journey like the one before us, 
