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prepared for this we had brought 3000 kilo pork-oflal and 3000 kilo corn- 
meal, which mixed together and cooked with water proved a very good 
dogfeed. We gave each of the dogs И kilo pork-offal and 14 kilo corn- 
meal prepared as a sort of mash, which proved healthy and strengthening; 
the dogs soon learned to eat it with relish, and even liked it better 
than the occasional feed of meat. 
The only objeetion to this kind of dogfeed is that it is rather expen- 
sive, as It requires considerable heat to cook such a large portion (25 kilo 
besides water), and we used two litres of kerosene for each cooking. 
Constant storms prevented the permanent closing up of the open 
water, and travelling was impossible, as we could neither move about 
with boat nor sledge. It was not till Sept. 16th that we could think of 
going by sledge to the southern point of Shannon Island, and even 
then we had to be ferried across the open water between the ship and 
the old floes filling Frozen Bay, over which JoRGENSEN, IVERSEN and 
I hauled a sledge with five-days’ provisions. 
The object of this small excursion was to reach the south-eastern 
peninsula of Shannon Island, where we wanted to look for game and 
also to examine the depot of the Ziegler-Expedition. It took us twelve 
hours of hard work to drag the sledge over the rough ice of Frozen Bay 
and reach the low land, where we camped. 
We were surprised to find quite a plain stretching all the way across 
the peninsula, bordered on each side by steep basalt cliffs, 75—100 metres 
in height. Some small basalt hills — likewise quite steep — rose out 
of the plain, which was otherwise quite smooth, and only in its southern 
part was intersected by watercourses. This plain gave a strong impression 
of being an elevated ocean-bed. Wherever we went, we noticed large 
trunks or pieces of driftwood in the most extraordinary places, far in- 
land and from 11/,—8 metres above the highest highwater-mark. 
On the eastern coast of Freeden Bay we found some very marked 
benches, the lower one about 3 metres above highwater-mark, the second 
one almost 10 metres, while still 7 metres up the beach a third one could 
be traced. The two lower benches had perfectly sharp edges, were 
flat and covered with coarse gravel. We walked on the middle bench, 
that is almost 10 metres above highwater-mark, and to our surprise 
we found a very large amount of driftwood, ranging from large trunks 
to small pieces. It is impossible to imagine that human beings can have 
dragged this large amount of wood to the elevated position in which it 
was found, and just as impossible to think that the water with its present 
relative position to this middle bench could ever rise as high as this 
and thus float wood on to it. 
Even assuming the ocean to be perfectly open, thus allowing the 
full sweep of the waves, they could never reach this middle bench, as 
the benches are on the leeward side of the land, where there could be 
no question of waves of any importance. 
