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160 WILHELM LAUB. 
At 12 o’clock noon on 22nd April we had all our tackle up and were 
ready to-drive further. All went well now until 6.30 p.m. The going 
was good but very slippery, in some places quite smooth ice, and at 
the same time a rather sharp ascent, a gradient of 420 metres on a 12 
miles’ stretch. 
As far as the country is concerned here on the north coast, the fol- 
lowing is worthy of note. The Ymer’s Nunatak (mentioned by Captain 
Косн from his journey to the Inlandice in the spring of 1908) appeared 
to be covered by the Inlandice towards west, where the ice without 
any visible demarcation joined the land, contrasting greatly with 
the east point, which rose steep from the ice. With reference to the 
north coast of Dronning Louise’s Land, it appeared to consist of is- 
lands among which the Inlandice floated. In the very centre of the 
north coast a long fjord stretched in a southerly direction, whilst we also 
observed some “fjords” going in E—W direction from the first named 
fjord (Fig. 77—78). It was very difficult to find a camping site that 
evening, on account of the absence of snow; but after a good half 
hour’s search we came across a snow-drift with just sufficient snow so 
that the tent poles could stand firm and the lower part of the canvas 
be covered. 
From this place we then made a survey of the environs, but un- 
fortunately it became also our involuntary camping site for three days 
altogether, as a gale sprang up in the course of the night to the ac- 
companiment of a heavy fall of snow, so that surveying and sledging 
were equally impossible. If only the wind had been at our backs, sled- 
ging would have been possible, but as stated before, it always turned 
out to blow along the coast, and was therefore right in our faces. Finally 
on 25th of April in the evening it cleared up and began to abate, and at 
8.30 p.m. we started, overjoyed to get away from the very unsatisfactory 
camp. But it was not altogether pleasant. It is true, the ice was quite 
good and even, and the further we advanced in the direction of our 
course, which was now true SW, there was more and more snow upon 
the ice. The ground was, however, constantly rising, altogether 250 m 
on the distance (about 10 miles) which we had sledged on this march; 
but what worried us much was the stiff breeze, a velocity of 3 to 4 
Beaufort’s scale add to which — 27°C., so that we had constantly to 
thaw one another’s noses and cheeks by rubbing. 
The land which now ran in a southwesterly direction still proved 
to be formed of nunataks, covered by the Inlandice towards west, 
whilst towards east it faced the ice with steep slopes (Fig. 79). At 
half past one in the morning we had reached an island extending from 
east to west. This island, Juel Brockdorff’s Nunatak, forms the north- 
westerly point of Dronning Louise’s Land, but here we were obliged to 
camp, as OLSEN had three fingers on the one hand and one ear and his 
right heel frost-bitten, and we did not wish to expose ourselves to serious 
