Report on the Danmark expedition to the north-east coast. 55 



Winter 1907—08. 



An observatory and house for the physicist with two men will 

 be built on land at the harbour and as soon as the ice and as long as 

 the light will permit, the coast down to Davy Sound will be investigated 

 on sledge journeys from the ship and depots laid. 



At the end of the dark period supplementary investigations will 

 be continued from the ship along the outer coast, in the arms of the 

 fjords and over small areas of the inland ice. 



Before the end of March the leader with 11 men will make for 

 the station and depot, St. B, at the head of Kejser Franz Josephs Fjord 

 and endeavour to find a way up onto the high plateau of the inland ice 

 through the most practicable glacier valley; here if possible a depot 

 will already have been made in the preceding summer and from here 

 the easiest way will be sought for over the marginal zone of the inland 

 ice, for the purpose of making extensive investigations of the latter. 

 If the attempt to reach in onto the inland ice at 40° W. long, is successful 

 and some three or four men are still suitably equipped and in good 

 condition, these may possibly attempt to cross over to the west coast 

 and down to Svartenhuk or Nugsuak, most probably the latter, where 

 in the year previous a small store of food will be laid in depot, and 

 from there connection may easily be made with neighbouring Green- 

 land settlements. 



Summer 1908. 



From a Danish colony in the neighbourhood the Danish members 

 of the sledge party will be brought down along the west coast in the 

 course of the summer by one of the Royal Greenland Trading Go's 

 vessels and further at the end of the August in the same year to the 

 mission station of Angmagsalik on the east coast of Greenland. Here the 

 arrival of the ship of the Expedition in the beginning of September 

 will be awaited. The intention is, namely, that after completing the 

 investigations in and near Kejser Franz Josephs Fjord and along the 

 coast down to Scoresby Sound the vessel should steer out of the pack-ice 

 and round this to Angmagsalik. If the vessel should not come into 

 Angmagsalik within the short period it can expect to meet the mem- 

 bers of the cross-journey party, it will make for Reykjavik, and from 

 there an endeavour will be made to induce the S./S. Godthaab of the 

 Royal Greenland Trading Co., which sails to Angmagsalik, to bring 

 the members of the cross-journey party to Reykjavik. And if they 

 do not meet with the vessel of the Expedition there either, they can 

 proceed to Copenhagen with the S./S. Godthaab and the vessel of the 

 Expedition will also proceed there. 



In addition to the cairns on the northernmost land reached by 

 the vessel and on Shannon Island, others will be raised on Bass Rock 

 at the Americans' depot, on the Hvalro.s Isl. at the depot for Sverdrup, 



