110 EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
When we continued at 10.30 p.m., we found glare-ice close inshore 
and made good progress, although I had to be driven on the sledge, 
as I could not keep up with our dogs on my sore and swollen feet — a 
result of beginning scurvey. We were not above 50 metres from the shore, 
which was carefully searched for traces of MyLius-ERICHSEN; however, 
without any results. 
The land, when we visited it, appeared barren, but we saw excre- 
ments of hares. A great number of ivory gulls were roosting on Nakke- 
hoved, and there seem to be more birds here than we later on saw 
at Mallemukfjeldet. No open water — nor indications of it — was 
seen from the height of 100 metres, and the gulls must probably feed 
in the water-lane along the north coast of Kronprins Christian’s Land, 
which possibly indicates that this lane is an annual occurence. We 
saw a bear-track, which may have been a couple of days old at the 
foot of the mountain, and this was the first sign of game we had seen 
since Fyen’s Lake. 
A gale blew from SE during the afternoon of June 9th, but it was 
possible to sledge, and we followed the quite low face of the glacier until 
the early morning of June 10th, when we came to a very flat foreland 
or small, outlying island — whether the one or the other we could not 
see — and at 7a.m. we camped somewhere in the vicinity of the depot 
on 81°30’ М. Lat. The gale was very strong at that time, and it was 
not till late at night that it abated so much that IvErsen could go out 
to look for the depot. He found it near the tent, and it only contained: 
2 tins of pemmiean ee 1.0 kg 
2 tins of pease meal & pork.... 0.5 - 
1 tin of farce with cabbage .... 1.0 - 
2.5 kg 
while according to Medd. om Gronland, vol. XLI, pag. 120, it ought 
to have contained: 
2 tins of pemmican 
2 tins of pease meal with pork 
1 tin of farce with cabbage 
2 litres of kerosene 
1 box of dog-pemmican. 
The 2 litres of petroleum were wanting as well as the dog-feed, and 
it is thus evident that MyLius-ERICHSEN and his party must have been 
here, passing by with good prospects for the immediate future and in 
good condition, as they had not thought it necessary to take the few 
kilo of men-provisions with them. 
We reached the depot with the sledge on June 12th at 1.30 a.m. 
and examined it once more very carefully. We found that the provi- 
sions had been stowed into an empty tin of dog-feed, which had been 
