Report on the expedition. Tan 
turned over, either by the wind or some animal, and the tins were lying 
close to it. Some stones which had been piled up so as to form a small 
cairn had been removed, but nothing was found underneath them. 
Stones which had been used for fastening the tent were seen in at least 
one place. Some few short pieces of rope were scattered about as well 
as a couple of empty tins, but nothing else was found. 
The low gravelled beach in front of the glacier, on which and along 
which we were sledging, seemed to be the breeding place of rather great 
numbers of geese, as we saw many on the wing and a very large flock 
sleeping on the ground. We killed two. 
The going was splendid to the south of Nordost-Rundingen, and we 
made good progress along the low face of the Inlandice. The going 
improved still more in the night between June 12th and 13th, when 
the sea-ice, close to the Inlandice, was quite level and almost bare of 
snow. The coast was hemmed in by a line of apparently grounded 
icebergs, about 1 à 1% mile off the shore. They were very numerous, 
lying close to one another, but they were all rather small and did not 
rise to more than 20 metres above the level of the sea. 
The melting-process must already have been going on for some 
days, as small rivulets were trickling down the steep glacier front, and 
melting channels had been formed through the snowbanks in front of the 
glacier. Furthermore, the sea-ice was beginning to melt, and all the 
tidal cracks or frost-cracks were open, the former about 30 à 50 em on 
an average, and the latter only 10 cm. 
A few seals were basking in the sun, but they were so shy that 
they took to the water, long before we could get anywhere near them. 
It surprised us very much not to see a single trace of bear, neither old 
nor new, all the way from Nakkehoved. The geese had disappeared, 
and the only birds which we saw were ivory-gulls. 
When in the night between June 13th and 14th we got out into a 
bay just north of Antarctic Bay we once more found snow on the ice, 
and this was also the case, when in the night between June 14th and 
15th we drove into Antarctic Bay itself; it was not till the morning 
of June 16th, when once more close under land, that we got snow-bare 
ice, broken up however, by rather broad tidal cracks and water-lanes. 
Some seals were seen on the ice, but we could not get within shooting 
range before they dived. 
We reached the depot on Amdrup’s Land on Fane 16 at 4а. т. 
(Fig. 60), and it was in all probability untouched, so Мутлоз-ЕвтснзЕМ 
must have ascended the Inlandice somewhere between this depot and 
the one on 81°30’ М. Lat. 
The depot contained 
PERMA. Sets doh en. 1.00 kg 
pease meal & pork............ 0.25 - 
farce with cabbage’ ........... 1.00 - 
