56 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
The surface of the ice was quite even, and we practically passed 
no hills at all (Fig. 32). The snow was soft and rather deep, but it was 
covered with a hard, windblown crust, which could bear the dogs but 
not the sledges. All in 
April 21 all we made а compara- 
Gardes sydl. Nunatak tively good progress of 
6.2 miles with a fall of 
1020 © T. 92pm. 20 metres. Total above 
sea-level 1020 metres. 
K The utmost tops of 
1030 the high land of the 
Very Gian rate ee BLE Garde’s and Moltke’s 
graduaL covered, with a hard crust. Nunataks became visible 
incline ie he ed at 2.30 pm., but it was 
1040 Е 
en to the North. not till we reached our 
camping-place on 78°20’ 
I 955 230 N Lat. that the land 
could be seen to its full 
00 extent, about 10—12 
RER Büdsöes miles distant. 
nordl. Nunatak, April 28th. There 
с: 3 miles was a wind from the W 
blowing with a strength 
of 10 metres a second when we left camp at 10.45, but it abated and 
calmed quite down before the end of the day’s travelling. 
At first the surface was very hilly, and we went so far down between 
the ice-hills that the high land rather close at hand became invisible. 
The hills became higher and steeper, the further we advanced, and 
whenever we reached the crest of a hill we could see an ice-dome straight 
ahead, with a diameter of about 3 miles and rising above the surround- 
ing ice to the height of 75—100 metres. This dome we could also 
see yesterday, when its top appeared very much broken, but this did 
not seem to be the case to-day. 
The ice was, however, very much broken up, and the first crevasses 
were passed at 1.30 p.m. From then and until we camped at 9 p.m., 
we had one crevasse after another. 
The crevasses radiated from the top of the ice-dome, where — owing 
to the lack of snow — they were quite visible. They became however 
hidden by snow half way down the side of the dome, but nevertheless they 
could usually be located at the place where we were, as they were always 
quite straight, and we had no need to be careful, before we had driven 
so far that the snow-bare crevasse on the top of the ice-dome could be 
seen from the end. 
Another set of crevasses was encircling the ice-dome and cutting 
