154 WILHELM LAUB. 
OLSEN and POULSEN, are to undertake after leaving me to morrow, I 
wish to make the following remarks: You have in the depot thirty-two 
days’ provisions for three men and thirty days’ food for four dogs, and 
I consider this supply sufficient to enable you to carry out the tour 
north and west of Dronning Louise’s Land with a descent at the Arden- 
caple Inlet or Dove Bay, in such a way that you choose the place from 
"which you can most quickly get down to the coast. The object of the 
tour is the surveying of the NW and SE coasts. The ice has been more 
impassable on the stretch we have travelled over than anticipated, but 
seemingly better both towards north and west. I beg you to be cau- 
tious and not advance further than you can see your retreat clear. Should 
the ice compel you to turn back, so that the return journey lies north 
of Dronning Louise’s Land, you may in case of dire necessity open our 
depot case at about 77°10’ N. lat., and take from it six days’ provisions 
for two men, and five kg. dogs’ food, but you must take care to cover 
the case, so that the snow cannot penetrate it. If you make use 
of these provisions the descent must take place at the same spot as the 
ascent, and you can take as much petrol from the supply lying in the 
depot as is absolutely necessary for you to make “Alabama”. Besides 
in case of absolute necessity you can take the stores shghtly south of 
Cape Teufel, but you are requested to take only the minimum in order 
to make the depot at Haystack, which supplies you may take with 
you and replenish afterwards, together with petrol. 
On your sledge jurney over the Inlandice, you are requested to take 
meteorological observations at 7 a.m. and afterwards every hour until 
you pitch your tent, so that data may be available for a comparison 
of the weather conditions in the districts where you and I are. 
You are likewise requested to note the nature of the ice in the stretch 
of ground covered by you daily. In the event of your reaching land at 
Dronning Louise’s Land, I shall be glad if you will collect botanical and 
geological specimens, and above all, do not forget to keep a careful 
diary of the sledge journey. 
(signed) (signed ) 
W. Глов. EJNAR MIKKELSEN. 
The Sledge journey. 
Plate I and III. 
After a little jollification in our tent in honour of Capt. MIKKELSEN 
and IVERSEN, who were proceeding northwards alone, we started off 
on the 10th of April 1910 in a southerly direction for our depot, laid 
down on April 6th at about 77°10’ N. Lat. Before we separated we 
gave to the other party a further three days’ provisions, as we thought 
we could spare them and get back to our depot in a day and a half. 
We arranged ourselves in the following manner round the sledge: 
A forerunner walking five or six metres in front in a long trace — as a 
