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the east coast of Greenland as far north as possible, at the least to 

 Shannon Island, where winter quarters may be found. If the con- 

 ditions are favourable the ship will go from a spot where the land or 

 fast land ice has been reached, along the land or fast ice northwards, 

 as far as may be considered advisable. At the northernmost point 

 reached the attempt will be made to land the winter house and pro- 

 visions for 4 men, as also the sledge materials for the sledge journeys 

 to the north in the coming winter. As the most northern point thought 

 of for this landing and station (the so-called St. A) I have imagined 

 Isle de Phihppe^ at 77°36' N. lat.. Cape Bismarck or the Koldewey 

 Islands between 76° — ^77° N. lat. The wintering party at this station, 

 from which cartographical and physical investigations will be carried 

 on as long as the season will permit along with continuous meteoro- 

 logical observations, will be composed provisionally of: First-lieutenant 

 BigTRUP as leader. Stud. med. Freuchen, the Norwegian Harald 

 Hagerup and a Greenlander or a seaman. If the attempt to land a 

 party л^^th winter house and stores is not successful, an endeavour 

 will in any case be made to build a cairn at the northernmost land 

 reached and place a report in it. 



From the northernmost point reached the ship will withdraw- 

 along the coast and go into winter-quarters on the south side of Shan- 

 non Island, which until we know better may be considered as the 

 best possible harbour. On the way, if the conditions permit, the ship 

 will try to make short cruises out into the ice for the purpose of making 

 soundings and also into the mouths of possible fjords, but the vessel 

 will at no time be exposed to the danger of coming fast, the intention 

 being to use the motor-boats, ice boat or women's boat for the in- 

 vestigations from the ship, where it cannot well leave the straight 

 course southwards. 



Should another harbour than Shannon Island be chosen as winter 

 quarters, I shall arrange for a cairn with report being built at the bay 

 on the south side of Shannon Island. 



Before the new ice stops sailing, surveying and other investiga- 

 tions will be carried on between the northernmost point reached and 

 the harbour, partly from St. A, partly from the ship, by means of 

 boats, kaiaks, sledges over the land-fast ice or horses as pack-animals 

 over the snow-free land. Further, depots will be laid out along the 

 route between St. A and the harbour and at the entrances to arms 

 of fjords and bays or on the hilly plateaus, which are to be more closely 

 surveyed on the sledge journeys of the coming winter. 



Winter 1906—07. 

 In the autumn of 1906, so long as the ice and light permit, short 

 journeys with the sledge will be made from St. A and the harbour 



' Uf' lie FrancT. Note bv Editor. 



