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The surface of the water in these lanes did not taste of salt, although we 
became a little thirsty some time after drinking it. 
The Inlandice remained quite smooth for the remainder of the day, 
but the rather warm weather compelled us to camp at 9,30 а. т., as it 
was impossible to force the sledge through the snow, which was by now 
quite wet and slushy. The temperature was + 6°5 С. according to the 
sling-thermometer, but it registered 19°2 when exposed to the direct 
rays of the sun on top of our tent. 
The journey was re umed at 11 p.m., and the whole of the morning 
of June 7th we were sledging on the Inlandice, which was so flat, that 
it was difficult to determine, whether we were on sea-ice or glacier-ice, 
save for the fact that we passed the broad water-lane, whenever we 
went from one to another. These lanes must have been open some 
time, if not all winter, as heavy pressure-ridges of different thickness 
of ice were seen like a high wall on the seaward side of the lane. 
Camped at 8 a.m. — still on Inlandice just east of a flat nunatak 
extending 2 miles in E—W direction. (Fig. 58). 
We had been very much surprised of late to see the way in which 
our dogs had acquired new strength as a result of the renewed feeding 
of pemmican. They were fed on meat of musk-ox while in Danmark’s 
Fjord, and each dog got at least 1 % kg а day. But their strength waned, 
they lost flesh, and their tails were hanging down, until we once more 
began to feed them on pemmican. Each of them had 400 от. a day, 
and in the course of a week they acquired their usual strength and gene- 
ral good appearance. Their strength still increasing we cut down the 
rations to 350 gr. and (six days later) to 300 gr., which seems to be just 
enough to keep a dog in working condition. 
During the night of June Sth a gale sprang up from NE, accom- 
panied by snow, and the weather did not abate sufficiently to allow 
us to start till 3.20 a. m. As of late our route lay alternately over the sea- 
ice and the smooth пап се, which had such a small elevation and 
grade that it would often have been difficult to determine, whether 
we were on the one kind of ice or the other, if we had not had the open 
lanes to show the demarkation between the Inlandice and sea-ice. 
This water-lane, which we had seen whenever we came to the outer 
limit of the Inlandice, was all along of the same width, never exceeding 
7 metres, and never less than 4 à 5 metres. It probably extends all 
the way from Prinsesse Dagmar Peninsula to Nakkehoved and must 
be formed by other agencies than melting; it was quite evident that 
the two kinds of ice had been separated from each other by force, as. 
the sharp and thick edges of the ice on either side of the lane made it 
quite impossible that the lane should have owed its existence to 
melting. 
We came down from the Inlandice and camped near the shore off 
the westernmost part of Nakkehoved (June 8th at 8.45 а. т.) (Fig. 59). 
