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grass, and nothing which proved that there had been any the previous 
summer. 
At 8.15 p. m. we returned with the sledge to the place, where we 
took half load, and here we set up our tent. This place became then 
our camping site for some time, the 19th and 20th of April, as we encoun- 
tered another storm, this time from the west, with masses of snow. On 
the 20th the storm was at its height with a wind velocity of 10 by 
Beaufort’s scale. 
As regards the direction of the wind during the journey until we 
turned back, it appeared that it was as follows: On the west of Dron- 
ning Louise’s Land southerly, on the north westerly, and on the east 
northerly, which meant as far as we were concerned, that.as soon as it 
came on to blow, we had the wind right in our faces, and this was ex- 
tremely unpleasant to sledge against, it being at times absolutely im- 
possible to make any headway, on account of frostbites in the face and 
because the dogs’ eyes became filled with snow, which we had to clean 
out every five minutes. 
Not until the 219 at noon was the weather such as to permit 
sledging, and in the course of an hour we arrived with the comparatively 
small sledge load at the spot to which we had driven our things three 
days previously. The ice from here right up to Suzanne Glacier was 
full of crevasses in a northerly and southerly direction (Fig. 72), and 
then the front of the glacier turned out to be quite perpendicular, so 
that any ascent there would have been impossible. 
So there was nothing else for us to do but to come down to the 
lake and otherwise to hug the glacier front and follow the foot of it, until 
we got to the north coast of Dronning Louise’s Land, in order to get to 
the more elevated Inlandice there. The size of the lake was about a 
mile in an easterly direction and at the broadest part, viz the western 
end nearest the glacier, about 1500 metres (Fig. 73). 
As previously stated the ice on Lake A was as smooth as glass. 
The arm, running from the Nunatak in a southwesterly direction, was 
only some few metres higher than the level of Lake A and in some 
places showed signs of vegetation, a little moss and some straw from the 
previous summer. 
About 15 to 20 metres from the glacier the arm ceased or was at 
any rate entirely covered with snow. At this point the glacier turned 
off in a SSE direction, always with its vertical front, and along the 
glacier there was a snow-drift which ran down to a lake of about a 
square mile in area, about 50 metres below Lake A (see Fig. 71). 
This lake, like the one previously mentioned, was as smooth as glass, 
but otherwise it was filled with icebergs. Its borders are: Towards the 
west the glacier front of the Suzanne Glacier; to the south the north 
coast of Dronning Louise’s Land; from the south and up through east 
to north and further along the northern coast of the lake, the Inland- 
