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depot, which he had left on the pensinsula when going west (Medd. om 
Grønland, vol. ХМ, pag. 131), and it is evident that he and his com- 
rades have been so far as this on their return-journey, as this depot 
had been removed. 
Foggy weather obliged us to make the day’s sledging short and to 
take a rest, which was very welcome, as we felt extremely tired, and 
the dogs were played out. A goose — the first migratory bird which we 
had seen this year — flew over our tent to the NW. 
Оп the evening of May 31st, shortly before starting, we saw to our 
surprise what appeared like open water in the SE with small pieces of 
ice floating about in it. It proved to be an optical delusion, similar 
to the one described by Capt. Амовор in Medd. om Grønland, vol. XX VII 
pag. 53, and no water at all was found in the vicinity. 
During the night of June Ist the snow became so soft that we were 
compelled to unload half of our outfit on the ice and proceed with the 
rest in order to advance at all, and even then, although the weight of 
half the load was but 100 kg. our progress was so slow that we did not 
reach the coast just east of Prinsesse Dagmar Peninsula before June 2nd 
at 6,30 a.m. The next sledging day was spent in bringing up to our 
tent the remaining half of our stores. 
We had camped on what we thought to be the coast of the main 
land after having passed two low and small islands, but it turned out 
that we had put up our tent on the north side of a third and rather 
large island, just off the main land. 
On June 3rd at 10 p.m. we proceeded once more with all our stores 
in one haul and climbed its top (30 metres high) to get a better view of 
the surroundings. The island, on which we stood, was almost circular 
with a diameter of 3 miles and separated from the glacier on the main 
land by a strait 11% mile broad. To the NW we could see the two small 
islands, which we had passed (each about 1 mile in diameter). They 
were quite low. 
To the east, at a distance of about 3 miles, there was a long appa- 
rently narrow ice-peninsula, the silhouette of which was saddle-backed 
so that for the 3 miles farthest out it almost appeared as an island joined 
on to the main land by a rather low and narrow tongue of the Inlandice. 
The ice-covered coast of Kronprins Christian’s Land was visible far 
to the east above this peninsula, and likewise the high Nakkehoved was 
plainly to be seen. 
The view to the south was that of the gradually rising Inlandice, 
very much broken up and furrowed by many river-courses. Its height 
was not particularly great. It looked like a long valley in the ice, not 
much above water-level, extending far to the south in continuation of 
the bay, which formed the western termination of the above-mentioned 
ice-peninsula. 
When on June Ч 3 a.m. we reached the place, which from 
