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towards the NNW, thus coming closer to the Fyen’s Lake discovered by 
Myrius-ERICHSEN. Consequently we headed this way, but in a short 
while we stopped, compelled to do so by a violent storm from west 
which began suddenly, just at the foot of the steep ice-hill. 
We camped at once, and from our rather elevated position we saw 
what appeared as a lake or local glacier winding its way in between 
the mountains to NNE, until at a distance of about 15 miles it turned 
more to the north, possibly even NW and disappeared behind a steep 
mountain-spur. 
We thought it certain that the immense amounts of water, which 
must be drained from this large area of ice during the summer, would 
pour into the lake at our feet, which in this case must have an outlet 
to Danmark’s Fjord, and over which we would thus be able to sledge 
all the way without danger of encountering snow-bare land. Our only 
doubt was that what appeared a lake might be a local glacier, which 
did not connect the land beneath us with Danmark’s Fjord, If this should 
be the case the attempt to reach the fjord would fail, and we decided 
to investigate before going further, particularly as we seemed to see 
crevasses all over the white surface. 
Made a distance of 8 miles with a decline of 100 metres. Total 
elevation above sea-level 700 metres. 
May 10th. The gale increased in velocity during the night, and 
it blew harder than it had ever done while we were on the Inlandice, 
but it abated somewhat before morning, allowing us to walk to the 
edge of the ice in order to find out, whether the white expanse was a 
lake or not. 
It proved to be a lake, and we followed the edge of the Inlandice 
for about 8 miles towards the east, looking for a place where descent 
was possible, but without success, as the glacier-front had a height of 
about 30 metres. The Inlandice in the neighbourhood of the edge rose 
and fell in hills following the undulations of the land underneath, and 
it was very much split up (Fig. 33). 
We had decided not to waste more time in this locality, but an 
accident with our dogs compelled us to remain one more day, and this 
day, May 11th, was spent in exploring the edge of the Inlandice at a 
point further to the west than yesterday. Here we fortunately found 
a place, where a large snow-bank reached from the land halfway up the 
glacier-front, and it was possible to lower our sledges on to this snowbank 
through a narrow and winding crack, cut into the very edge by water- 
courses during the summer. 
The Inlandice sloped rapidly from our camp towards the land, and 
the surface was quite bare of snow and covered with large hummocks, 
which were so smooth and slippery that it was almost impossible to 
stand on them. 
The immense amount of water, which every summer floats over the 
