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still bore her up, so that she was just afloat with her bow above the 
surface. 
The going was very bad, so it took us about thirty-six hours to 
reach the Shannon depot and this despite the fact that we had scarcely 
any “traps” with us. Only the clothes which we should want aboard 
the “7de Juni” were taken, also the diaries, our journal with particulars 
of our experiences during the winter, photographic plates and the ship’s 
papers. Everything else, instruments, photographic apparatus, chrono- 
meter etc. were left behind in the house. 
We had a sledge with us, but we had to leave it behind at the 
bottom of Freeden Bay, as it was impossible for us in the fog to get 
it on to the ice, on account of the many tidal cracks, and we were 
thus obliged to walk about ten miles overland down to the depot, 
where we arrived in the evening of August Ist, and found the “7de 
Juni” still at the edge of the ice. 
The next day, when the weather had cleared, four of us (JORGEN- 
SEN was in bed, his feet having caused him much discomfort on the 
trip, so that he had to he up) fetched the sledge from the bottom of 
Freeden Bay, but it still continued to be very difficult for us to get 
out on the sea ice, and not until we had been into the water all of 
us, did we succeed in getting it over, as some of the cracks were so 
wide that we had to jump in order to get over and then throw the 
contents and the dogs over the cracks, finally letting the sledge float 
across by itself (Fig. 94). 
Of course our remaining dogs suffered a lot on this tour to fetch 
the sledge, so we were obliged to kill two of them before we got back 
to the “7de Juni”, as on account of their exhaustion and drenched con- 
dition they were unable to drag themselves along, and my experience 
tends to show that the worst thing that can happen to a Greenland 
dog is to expose it to water, whereas cold and snow do not affect it at all. 
In the evening of the same day — 2nd of August — at 10 p.m. 
we left the depot on board the “7de Juni”, going north along the coast, 
after having helped ourselves to ten days’ provisions for five men from 
the depot. 
Capt. LANDMARK had stated his willingness, now that the number 
of his crew had increased, to endeavour to make our winter quarters 
in order to see if anything new had occurred, and then, if the land 
water extended further, to proceed so far north as to render it possible 
to investigate the depots along the coast. 
At five in the morning of the 3rd of August we passed Cape Pansch, 
the southern extremity of Frozen Bay, and worked our way until noon 
through ice which became more and more impassable, until we were 
compelled to stop about six miles to the eastward of “Alabama”s 
winter quarters on account of the ice being quite impenetrable. Prior 
