52 G. Лмонгр. 



Expedition, who siiall be entitled further to make exemptions from 

 the terms in § 4, part 2, last point of the part and also § 5, parts 

 2 and 3. 



With respect to the stamped document it may be noted, that 

 the total amount that can be earned on this agreement cannot be 

 considered to exceed 6000 Kr. 



The present contract is drawn up in 3 copies, of which the stamped 

 copy remains with the Committee of the Danmark Expedition, whilst 

 each of the parties receives an unstamped copy. 

 Copenhagen, May 31st 1906. 



In the case of Trolle and Koch special provisions were added 

 to the above contract, which defined more clearly their respective 

 positions as captain onboard and leader of the land survey. 



Altogether it was a company of capable men, several of whom 

 had already won a respected name as investigator, which Mylius- 

 Erichsen gathered round himself and which under his leadership was 

 til solve the principal portion of the great and splendid task he had 

 set himself, and for which he himself had prepared the plan. 



As mentioned above, Mylius-Erichsen had already drawm up 

 the plan for the Expedition in May 1905. The plan, which Mylius- 

 Erichsen handed over to the Committee on the departure of the 

 Expedition from Copenhagen, was in the main the same as that of 

 1905 and read as follows: 



Plan of the Expedition. 



When the Expedition onboard the screw barque "Danmark" 

 leaves Copenhagen (probably on June 24th this year), the course will 

 be set for Trangisvaag in the Færoes, where the three Greenland hunters 

 with about 70 North Greenland dogs and a number of skins, brought 

 by the S./S. Hans Egede, will be taken onboard. Thereafter Eske 

 Fjord on East Iceland will be called at and 6 Icelandic horses and 50 

 tons of coal will be taken onboard. Between the 5th and 10th of July, 

 probably, the course will be set from East Iceland along the shortest 

 route possible passed Jan Mayen up to the ice boundary in the so- 

 called North Bay ^, wherever it тал^ lie this summer, apparently 

 about 75° N. lat. Here we enter the ice, unless it should be considered 

 advisable to try an even higher latitude, before we go inside the ice 

 boundary. From the Færoes and from Iceland I shall send reports 

 to the Committee and also \vith a whaler, if any are met with at or 

 inside the ice boundary. 



It is now the aim of the Expedition to reach in with the ship to 



' Each summer at ca. 75° N. lat. the pack-ice belt forms a bay with scat- 

 tered ice, the so-called North Bay. Note bv Editor. 



