Survey of Northeast Greenland. . 345 
o’clock, noon, velocity of the wind 8 to 10 m. The wind is here 
blowing along the shore i. e. northerly; it is to be supposed that it 
is more westerly out at sea. 
Hodometer distance 54 km. 
It was not without misgivings that we started to-night, without 
BERTELSEN’S dogs, but we could not wait any longer. The journey 
to our depot would presumably take us four days, and we only had 
petroleum and provisions for two days. It is true that we might 
live exclusively on raw musk ox meat; but the loathing felt by 
BERTELSEN for this kind of food, and his illness which was un- 
doubtedly due to the monotonous manner of living, made it ex- 
yremely desirable for us to reach our depot as quickly as possible. 
I had partly the same symptoms myself: langour, loathing for food, 
nausea, constipation, perhaps also a little bit of vertigo and headache, 
but clearly in a much lesser degree than BERTELSEN. As, furthermore, 
Tobias was of the opinion that the dogs had killed themselves in 
the same manner as the musk ox, which supposition one was fain 
to entertain face to face with the slope, it would be wrong to remain 
longer in Hyde Fjord. As a last attempt I asked Togras to drive 
the 5 km back to our former.camping site to look for the dogs there, 
but though he did so immediately before the start, he found no dogs 
there. Then ToBias gave one dog and I another to BERTELSEN, so 
that we now were driving with seven, seven and six dogs respectively. 
In a somewhat depressed mood we shaped our course out of Hyde 
Fjord; BERTELSEN in particular, of course, felt the loss of half of his 
team very much; when all is said and done, one cannot help getting 
fond of those animals, which toil for one day after day, and are only 
rewarded with a bone and abundance of blows. 
The dogs had however profited by the strong food and the pre- 
vious days spent in comparative comfort; in spite of the reduced 
teams we made 54 km in nine hours and under conditions which 
were by no means particularly favourable. 
Stone sample from the north side of the entrance to Schley 
Fjord. The sample is taken from a loose rock, but the stone was 
undeniably to be found in situ. I was less than 50 m away from 
the solid rock, but I could not get farther on account of my enfeebled 
state. The ground and practically the whole side of the mountain was 
everywhere strewn with blocks of this kind; besides we here and there 
found little bits of a steel-grey colour and of the same consistency. 
The weather. Towards 8 p.m. (20/V) the wind began to subside, 
in that it now came in gusts. At 12 midnight, we had quite a faint 
wind from north (along the shore) with a light fall of snow and mist. 
However it seemed to clear up towards north. 
