A9 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
At first the going was splendid, and we made good progress over 
the hard, even snow, and this in spite of the fact that we had a steep ` 
rise on the first 6 miles. Then we came on to a plateau 1 mile in length, 
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and after that to a steep hill, at least 15 metres high. Unfortunately 
we got rather near to a valley traversed by a river-bed, and we had some 
rough ice along its edge. Farther to the west we could see a very broad 
and apparently deep river-course, which had a general NNE — SSW 
direction, thus cutting our course. We came rather near it towards 
the end of the day’s travelling, and saw that it was about 10 metres 
broad and 5 metres deep. Its edges were very rough, and large snow- 
bare hummocks, with deep soft snow in between, delayed our advance 
(Fig. 14 & 15). We camped after having travelled a distance of about 
14 miles, with a rise of 75 metres and 200 metres above sea-level. 
We had an extensive view towards Dronning Louise’s Land from 
