46 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
April 5th was spent in camp, stormbound. 
April 6th. We advanced our stores, leaving our tents standing, but 
2 miles beyond our camping site the ice again became uncommonly bad, 
and it was decided —- in order to get as far as possible before being obliged 
to let our three comrades return — to leave all of Laus’s provisions 
in the camp, and only push north with our own stores and his camping 
outfit, hoping thus to be able to drive all the load in one turn. 
April 7th. The ice which we had to pass was however so rough 
that it was quite impossible to transport the remainder of our stores, 
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which we had to divide and keep on double-banking, but even then we 
only proceeded with great difficulty. We worked for 10% hours, and 
only advanced 2 miles with half our loads (Fig. 20). 
Immediately after leaving our camp we came amongst some very 
high hummocks, perfectly snow-bare and smooth, consisting of such 
hard ice that our iron-shod runners made no impression whatever. 
The ice became worse about 11% miles north of our last camp, and we 
had to pass 7 deep water-courses, divided from each other by steep, 
high and glossy ridges, about 10 metres high. It was impossible to pass 
all the ridges, and we had to keep off to the eastward through one of 
the river-beds, thus reaching the plateau which we had seen on April 4th. 
