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clefts and crevasses (Fig. 83 and 84). The sledge was now extremely 
ricketty and could not very well stand the many crevasses and irregula- 
rities. The uprights were bent like an S, three of them were broken, 
and as a climax to our troubles PouLSEN became snow-blind, so that 
he was in total darkness the last three days on the Inlandice. In the 
morning when we started he was placed by the side of the sledge, and 
he only had to hold on and keep up with it (Fig. 85). OLSEN and I, 
who were in the traces, gave him timely warning whenever we were 
coming to uneven ground, but it often happened, that we omitted to do 
so, or thought that the ice was in such a condition that it was not 
necessary. A moment after we were brought up standing by а shout 
from POULSEN and a jerk on the sledge, and each time he had stumbled 
over an irregularity in the ground. OLSEN also suffered from that 
affliction — which is so painful and troublesome in the Polar regions, 
— but fortunately not until the last day before we returned to “Ala- 
Бата”, so that he was able to sit in the dark in our hut and rest 
his eyes, thus getting over the trouble easily. 
On May 10th at 2 p.m. we were again down on the sea-ice in the 
fjord outside Brede Glacier. The appearance of the glacier was some- 
what changed, as just round our place of descent and likewise where 
we ascended, part of the glacier had fallen down, and for the space of the 
last kilometre along the edge of the glacier several small currents had 
formed, where we heard the rippling of water which at last fell out over 
the glacier. It was a curious feeling now after forty-eight days’ march 
up on the Inlandice to find one self again down on the fjord-ice. The 
difference was clearly apparent in the very loose snow on the ice, and 
in many places there was water on it, but otherwise it was a great relief 
to be able to rest the eye on the black hilltops of Germania Land, as 
a contrast to eternally seeing the dazzling white of the Inlandice. 
At 9p.m. we pitched our tent at a point at the southern end of Ger- 
mania Land (Fig. 86)". Here we decided to sledge to Danmark’s Havn, 
as we could see that we should not be able to make “Alabama” with 
the remaining provisions, so we laid our route northwards in between 
the small islands in the bottom of Dove Bay (Fig. 87) and then to 
the south of Red Island and the southern Orientering’s Island towards 
Cape Helgoland. There is nothing special to report about this part of 
the tour; we arrived on May 14th shortly after noon at Danmark’s Havn 
after having completely run out of provisions. The cause of our being 
delayed was the very soft and deep snow, so that we sank into it up 
to our calves at each step, besides which we lost our way in the fog, 
which lasted the whole day and night of the 13th, and we reached 
Koldewey Island well south of Cape Helgoland, whereby the journey 
was considerably prolonged. 
т Later on by Capt. Косн, when he came there in the autumn 1912, called 
Cape Stop. 
