29 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
In the evening we camped on our old camping site, not far from 
BRONLUND’S grave, on which we laid a flower-offering from the parents 
of Horc-HaGEN and a winding sheet from Mrs. MyYLius-ERICHSEN, 
feeling certain that this use of the two tokens of remembrance from the 
near relatives of the two perished men would be in accordance with 
their wishes, as the bodies of those for whom it was intended could not 
be found, and BR@NLUND had been the best of comrades to the very last. 
We left Lambert’s Land early on Nov. 6th having only four days’ pro- 
visions on the sledges (half rations) and kerosene for two days. The 
sledges were drawn by sixteen dogs, as five had died on the outward 
journey, and of these sixteen several were in a very pitiful state and 
might die at any moment. 
We headed a little further out to sea than when going north, and 
fortunately we found a little better ice, as progress would otherwise 
have been impossible on account of the darkness, the snow and the fog. 
Nov. 7 and Sth were spent in our tent, as it blew a perfect hurricane, 
and though on the following day the weather was good and the ice tole- 
rable, we only made very little progress, as the dogs caused us as yet 
unheard-of troubles. During the preceding night one had been torn 
to pieces and devoured by the others, and at 11 a.m. our largest and 
strongest dog gave out, possibly poisoned by eating the liver of the 
killed dog. At 1 p.m. a third dog died from sheer exhaustion, and the 
fourth fell at 2,50, perfectly worn-out, and it also died in spite of the 
fact that we camped and did everything to save the animal. 
Thus only twelve dogs remained, and as it was now impossible to 
haul 3 sledges, one was left behind. This facilitated our sledging a little, 
but in spite of that we did not reach our depot on Parisergerne before 
Nov. 12th at 5 p.m, when we had absolutely no provisions left. 
We escaped the rough and difficult going from the northern journey 
by following another route, a little more to the west and down between 
the islands, where we actually found splendid going along the east coast 
of the Islands, so good in fact that we reached our depot on Bjorne- 
skærene Nov. 16th at 5 p.m. 
From there and southward, where we had expected to do some 
fast driving, our progress became poor, as the salt-water ice had been 
covered by a foot of soft snow, which made the hauling of the sledges 
very heavy. 
In passing Skerfjorden on Nov. 18th we went further into the fjord 
than on our northward journey, thus escaping the old, hummocky ice 
with its soft snow. 
On Nov. 19th, shortly after we had passed Cape Marie Valdemar, 
we lost another dog, but this was the last accident on this part of the 
trip, and we reached Danmark’s Havn on Nov. 22nd at noon. 
In spite of the darkness we had made better time going south 
than north, where we had an hourly average of 1,13 miles against 1,31 
miles on our southward journey with only 114 sledging hours. 
