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ice being quite bare of snow it was difficult for the dogs to find a footing, 
but we succeeded in reaching a plateau, which appeared quite level, 
solid and perfectly covered with snow. 
It was, however, intersected by broad cracks, and one of our sledges 
fell down, but it jammed so that we could crawl on to it and bring the 
cargo into safety on the solid ice before taking the sledge out (Fig. 28). 
Everywhere we were hemmed in with crevasses, which compelled us to 
camp and look for a safe road. 
The crevasse into which the sledge fell had a width of about 3 metres. 
Its sides were perfectly smooth, and it extended so far down as we could 
see. The edges were very sharp and absolutely untouched by melting 
water or the rays of the sun, so the crevasse must have been formed 
since last summer. 
We covered a distance of 10,5 miles and were 65 metres above 
our last camp. Total above sea-level 740 metres. 
April 16th. A violent NW gale compelled us to remain in camp 
all day. 
April 17th. The gale calmed down during the night (at 3 а. m.). 
and we were able to start at 5.30. We reached the extreme top of the 
hill without any accidents, but we could see that the ice was intersected 
by crevasses, hidden under the snow, but still visible on its surface, as 
the snow lying over a crevasse has a somewhat darker colour than that 
lying on solid ice, and is further marked by a slight sinking in the middle, 
thus appearing as a long, rather sharply marked path on the surface of 
the snow. 
The top of this hill was so far our highest altitude (730 metres), 
and we had an extensive view from it, still bemg able to see Dronning 
Louise’s Land — rather below us — and away to the north a very high 
conical peak, Moltke’s Nunatak (named after Count Cart MOLKTE, member 
of Garde’s expedition on the southern ice-cape in 1893); as well as other 
tops, Garde’s Nunatak (named after T. V. GARDE, Captain R. D. N. who 
amongst other achievements in Greenland commanded an expedition on 
the most southerly part of the Inlandice during the spring of 1893), 
all of which project out of the ice. Nearer at hand we saw some 
lower nunataks, Bildsoe’s Nunataks (named after J. A. D. JENSEN-BILD- 
SØE, who was the first to carry on systematic investigations on the In- 
landice). They were all lying on a line almost N—S and were apparently 
the extreme tops of a mountain ridge, connecting the high Moltke’s 
Nunataks with Dronning Louise’s Land. This ridge was visible all the 
way, either directly — the land itself — or indirectly — the large ice-hill 
stretching N—S, along which we have been travelling of late. The ice 
plainly bore evidence of being as it were a thin layer pushed over a 
mountain ridge, which caused this icelayer to be very hilly, nearly 
following the contours of the mountain tops underneath. 
