ns G. Amdrlt. 



the party learnt tliat tlie dugs oi' На(;ех and Rixc; had eaten tln' 

 whok> (if the bear. 



A depot for the return journey was made south ul Mulli'muk- 

 fjæld. 



According to the original plan Ring and G. Thostrup were to 

 form the first returning party. Mylius-Erichsen had met with a 

 number of much greater difficulties however than he had anticipated 

 after his experience on the depot journeys and especially on the au- 

 tumn journey southward in 1906. The screw-ice especially had been 

 very troublesome, causing a number of break-downs and thus great 

 delays, for only Mylius-Erichsen, Ring, G. Thostru? and the two 

 Greenlanders were able to repair the damages in the most practical 

 way. For the purpose of making the best arrangement possible under 

 the circumstances Mylius-Erichsen resolved upon a change in the 

 members of the 3rd and 4th parties, so that Ring and G. Thostrup 

 were not to be in the same party. As geologist Wegener could not 

 return home, now that the boundary between the ]irimitive rock in 

 the south and the sedimentary deptisits in the nortii had just been 

 reached: the one to return was therefore Bistrup. As the latter, 

 like G. Thostrui-, was a cartographer. Ring and Wegener had conse- 

 quently to change places, so that a cartographer and one who was' 

 able to undertake the repairing of the sledges came to be in each party. 



Bistrup and Ring thus remained behind, retaining the two worst 

 sledges. Further, Bistrup exchanged 7 of iiis good dogs for 7 of 

 Wegener's, which were not so good. 



In the evening the 1st and 2nd parties along with G. Thostrup 

 and Wegener again drove out over the new ice of the openings and 

 tented early in the morning north of Mallmukfjæld. 



April 23rd. During the previous days the dogs had eaten far 

 too many of the sledge and ski lashings and it was now resolved to 

 keep a watch henceforth at the tenting place. Bertelsen, who de- 

 sired to paint, and the two Greenlanders, who were to repair the 

 sledges, volunteered to keep watch between them. 



It was the only time a watch was kept, for Bronlund hit upon 

 a method of building up the sledges one on the top of the other on 

 4 of the dogs' food boxes, so that the dogs could not reach them. 



The screw-ice lay close to land along the outer coast of Holuis 

 Land. It was possible, however, to travel on the narrow and fairly 

 high ice-foot, where the advance was more or less easy in spite of the 

 very undulating surface. An opposing wind with snowdrift was some- 

 what troublesome. 



April 24th. Between Cape Amélie (at 77°30'j and Mallemuk- 

 fjæld (at 80°09') Mylius-Erichskx had found no trace of earlier Eskimo 

 settlements. It Avas a great surprise to him, therefore, to discover 

 a tent-ring and a well-preserved trap north of Mallemukfjæld. .Л I 



