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' The instruments were : a theodolite, a compass, two quick- 

 silver thermometers, a pocket aneroid barometer, an alidade, a 

 camera with seventy films, and an odometer. 



' For medicinal purposes we had : opium, naphtha, iodoform- 

 gauze bandages, plaster, cocaine, veils, and snow-spectacles. 



' Everything together weighed 872 Ibs., and Braskerud and I 

 divided the weight equally on our two sledges. 



' On Tuesday, May 23, at eleven in the forenoon, we left the 

 " Fram," and were accompanied by Baumann, Hassel, and Stolz as 

 far as Leffert Glacier. At two in the afternoon of the following 

 day they returned on board, and we proceeded up the glacier. 

 The conditions were extremely unfavourable, and it took us three 

 days to reach the top of it. 



' The general true course to Leffert Glacier is W. by S. about 

 twelve miles ; to the top of the glacier W.N.W. about twenty-four 

 miles. 



' Leffert Glacier falls out into Eoss Bay, immediately south of 

 Rice Strait. Its gradient is even. It is bounded on the north 

 by partially snow-clad mountains, between which seven smaller 

 glaciers shoot out to it on the south side of some higher snow- 

 covered mountains. 



' On the same evening that we reached the top I was away four 

 hours reconnoitring up on a mountain to the north. To the 

 north and north-west I saw the jagged, partially snow-covered 

 mountains which lie south of Hayes Sound and Jokelfjord. To 

 the west were high snow-clad mountains through which a very 

 large glacier protruded. From the highest part of Leffert Glacier 

 another glacier trended westward, converging with the one from 

 the west, running towards Jokelfjord. In the south were high 

 precipitous mountains only partially covered with snow. 



' Before starting down from the top of Leffert Glacier, we 

 thought it best first to go south, to see at closer quarters if there 

 were not better country by which we could proceed westward. In 

 the end, however, we were obliged to descend from our halting 

 . place, as the country to the south proved to be much too broken 

 for us, and on May 28 we reached the face of the glacier, where 

 we saw Jokelfjord with its icebergs lying right beneath us. It 



