The period from Sept. 25" to Dec. 17 1909. 
Plate III. 
HILST Capt. MIKKELSEN undertook the sledge journey to Lambert's 
Land, and after OLSEN and I — who had accompanied the 
sledging party some of the way towards north, principally to get our 
dogs and ourselves into training — had returned on the 2nd of October 
we made some trips in the vicinity of our winter quarters. 
The first trip was undertaken to Haystack by PouLsen and myself 
from 13th—23rd October. Bad weather forced us to stay at Haystack 
for six days altogether, but during this time we managed to investigate 
the peninsula and the immediate surroundings. Worthy of special men- 
tion is a river debouching due south from the spot where Haystack 
joins the mainland, and which ends in a rather large delta. (Fig. 64). 
The river flows in a southeasterly direction (true) between steep 
mountains, and further out between high heaps of rubble up to 75 
metres. The river, between the mountains, is about forty metres broad 
and four metres deep. 
Four miles from the coast the river ran through a large valley, which 
in all probability is flooded in summer, as the stones in this valley were 
polished and quite smooth. From the valley the river went further in 
for about four miles, where it was seen to flow between hills a hundred 
metres high at a depth not exceeding a metre in some places. The river 
was fed by five small confluents, all coming from a northwesterly 
direction. 
Moreover, it looks as if there is a valley region northwards for 
about six miles into the country, stretching behind the hills on the east 
coast and up to Bessel Bay; this latter deduction I made by noticing 
the way in which the shadow from the sun fell across the country. 
As regards ice-conditions we were much better off this time than 
on our previous tour, by keeping closer in to the mainland — Hochstetter 
Forland — where there was a lot of new ice very good for sledging, com- 
pared to the heavy ridges northward of Shannon Island up to Koldewey 
Island. 
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