Report on the expedition. 55 
The Inlandice rose evenly all day in long, quite flat hills, covered 
with perfectly smooth and very hard snow, which however was not so 
granular as on the preceding days. We consequently made much better 
progress, helped exceedingly by the wind, which blew from the west 
during the greater part of the day. 
The Bildsøe's Nunataks were visible to the east all day, and save 
the southermost ones they rose above the Inlandice in rounded hills, 
but none of them were of great height, and they did not exceed 
100—150 metres. 
Made a distance of 6.2 miles with a fall af 48 metres. Total ele- 
vation above sea-level 1002 metres. 
April 26th. A gale blew with heavy snowfall during the whole of 
the night and the greater part of the day, and we could not get off before 
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6p.m. The going was rather hard owing to the large amount of soft 
snow which had fallen during the gale, and which had not yet blown 
off the ice. 
The surface rose quite evenly for 3 miles; after that we drove down 
hill, but the slope was so small that it did not facilitate our sledging 
at all. 
On the extreme top of the hill we noticed a very broad and sharply 
marked crevasse or valley just east of our course, extending in an easterly 
direction towards an opening between two nunataks. This valley must 
probably be a place through which the water is drained from this locality. 
(Fig. 31). 
We made about 4.2 miles with a rise of 38 metres. Total elevation 
above sea-level 1040 metres. 
April 27th. There was a wind as usual, but not so strong as to 
make sledging impossible, particularly as the wind was WNW, which 
allowed us to use a sail on one of the sledges. 
