166 WILHELM LAUB. 
We remained two days at Danmark’s Havn to recover our strength 
and to provision, and then journeyed south towards Shannon Island on 
the afternoon of the 16th, with a week’s supplies and after having left a 
letter for anyone who might come to the depot or for Capt. MIKKELSEN, 
who was the most likely person to arrive there. Fortunately we had 
got skis at Danmark’s Havn, which were of great assistance to us now 
in the soft snow which extended over the whole of Dove Bay, from 
Cape Helgoland right up to the north coast of Bessel Bay. On the same 
stretch we encountered a number of fissures in the ice running from east to 
west and which in some instances stretched from Koldewey Island right 
away to the mainland, but the majority were narrow, up to about a metre 
in width. Only two of the fissures were very broad, over four metres 
at the place of crossing, and they caused us a lot of trouble to get over, 
as we had to go nearly up to the mainland in order to pass. 
At one of these fissures PouLsEn had the ill-luck to fall into the 
water when attempting to cross over, a very unpleasant plight, but for- 
tunately without any serious consequences. 
On the morning of May 21st we reached the depot at Haystack. 
From Danmark’s Havn we had sledged by night, partly on account of 
the heat and also to avoid having the sun in our eyes during the journey 
southwards. From Haystack we again encountered hard ice, but the 
old trail from the autumn was still there right down to Shannon Is- 
land and caused us a lot of trouble, the snow having become much 
softer and looser, and on this stretch we had besides to carry two of 
the dogs, “Саше” and “Tandbylden”, both of them being quite played 
out, but being so near home, we wished to get them back to “Alabama”. 
These two dogs, however, never got over the hardships of the sledge 
trip. 
Оп May 25rd at 1 p.m. we got back to the winter quarters and 
here found the “Alabama’ in a damaged condition (Fig. 88), whilst our 
two comrades Lieutenant JØRGENSEN and UNGER, the carpenter, had 
fitted up a tent ashore. 
Remarks concerning the Inlandice at Suzanne Glacier. 
Respecting the curious appearance of the Inlandice at the northern 
end of Dronning Louise’s Land, I shall describe it more closely, but with 
the reservation that I do not make any deductions from it, not being 
competent to do so, but I shall draw attention to Capt. Косн and Dr. 
WEGENER’s description of the character of land and ice at Ymer’s 
Nunatak, which according to my opinion coincides exactly with the 
experiences we had. | 
The description in question is to be found in the “Meddelelser om 
Grønland XLVI, No. 1”: “Die glaciologischen Beobachtungen der Dan- 
mark-Expedition von J. P. Koch und A. Wegener” p. 30 under the 
section “Die Schlittenreise vom Annekso nach Ymers Nunatak”’. 
