168 WILHELM LAUB. 
joined the west coast of Dronning Louise’s Land — a very slightly ascen- 
ding, almost even surface, followed by the sharp declivity on the eastern 
side of the numerous nunataks. On the west coast of Dronning Louise’s 
Land the ground certainly projected at the top, and the height here 
on the west coast was greater than towards the east coast of the land 
at Storstrømmen. 
From Lake A ran a narrow passage — which was now partly filled 
with snow and excellent for sledging purposes — along by the glacier 
wall, thus being bordered by it on the western side, whilst the east side 
was formed by the isthmus of the island between the two lakes, rising 
to a height of about 50 metres, so that Lake B, where we came 
down through the passage, lay about 50 metres lower than Lake A. 
At the same time the upper edge of the glacier sloped in a southerly 
direction down to Dronning Louise’s Land, in such a way that the 
height of the glacier right in at Dronning Louise’s Land was about 
50 metres, of which about 25 to 30 metres was a perfectly steep wall. 
I have previously mentioned the appearance of the lake, and its posi- 
tion is clearly shown on the sketch. 
With reference to the prolific fauna stated by the Danmark-Ex- 
pedition as existing at Dronning Louise’s Land, I can only say that our 
party up to now throughout the journey had not observed a single trace 
of animal life, neither lemmings, snowhares, ptarmigans or snowsbun- 
tings, but the reason is perhaps to be found in the fact, that we were 
at Dronning Louise’s Land at an earlier period of the year than when 
the party from the Danmark-Expedition were there. 
The meteorological conditions have been treated elsewhere, and I 
shall not touch on them more closely, but simply emphasize the fact 
which we observed at Dronning Louise’s Land, viz that the wind blew 
round the country in a right hand direction and always with great 
velocity, irrespective of the fact whether it succeeded snow or fine 
weather, it thus being nearly always windy on the stretch of country 
we covered. \ 
It was partly blowing gales on about 75 % of the 48 days we spent 
on the Inlandice. 
