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and salt ice as well as the sledge box and spirit. At 4.30 р. m. Togras 
left. The weather was then somewhat clearer. At 7 p.m. he returned. 
He had found the depot in northeast, at a distance of nearly 7 to 
8km. Unfortunately he had not been able to get hold of salt ice; 
just as farther north all the ice here was entirely fresh palæocrystic 
ice. BERTELSEN and I each drank a pint of boiled water, ate oat- 
meal porridge and stewed prunes, and hoped that we should now 
get better. 
In the report!) something must be said of the value Tobias was 
to us on this trip: his knowledge of ice, dogs, sledges, hunting 
conditions, of the use of the meat of musk oxen, their sinews and 
hides, his skill in working with primitive means &c&c. and with all 
that a good and loyal friend and comrade. 
8.30 a.m. Temperature — 9.0. Fog. Light fall of snow. Fetched 
the meat depot; BERTELSEN enema. 
Started at 8.30 a.m. to fetch the meat we had in depot. Haze 
and fog, though we were able to distinguish the mountains and 
therefore with good cause hoped to find our depot. Before the start 
I had a very fair motion and felt very much relieved; on the other 
hand the boiled water had had no effect on BERTELSEN. I had then 
decided on the rather original experiment of giving BERTELSEN an 
enema, by means of the petroleum funnel and a jug. The funnel, 
which WEINSCENK had made for us, I first of all filed off very care- 
fully, so that all sharp edges were rounded off, and after that I gave 
BERTELSEN an enema amounting to nearly a quart of the lukewarm 
water. It was rather an easy way, and had an immediate and good 
effect. 
But still we were very tired, when after a few hours we found 
our depot, and here a rather stiff job awaited us. It is true that the 
foxes made frequent visits to the place — one blue fox fled, when 
we arrived — but they had only gnawed bits of hide, the heads 
and similar things, and had left the depot quite intact. But the 
meat in the one pit, and that the greatest, was frozen solid into one 
big lump, which for the time being we could not quarter, as we 
had no axe. So we had to load the whole lump on Togras’ sledge 
and harness ten dogs to it. When towards the middle of the after- 
noon we returned to the tent, I was quite exhausted and unable to 
travel further; besides we had many hours’ work left with the big 
lump of meat. We set to work cutting it up, and in the process 
we unfortunately broke the handle of our axe twice, which loss may 
perhaps not be remedied in this place, and which may prove very 
1) Here I am thinking of the official report of the journey, which was to be 
written after our return. See Medd. om Grenl. XLI, pp. 139—140. 
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