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nourishment and lack of sleep. To this was added that Wegener's 

 one eye had been very much inflamed by the strong sun and reflexion 

 from the inland ice. 



On May 22nd they drove southwards to Cape Drygalski and 

 from tliere down along the western side of the island, off which the 

 tent was pitched. Already on this day they felt that they had come 

 out on the flowing glacier-ice in the Jøkelbugt, as they had to drive 

 round a fairly broad and deep crack with new ice in the bottom. In 

 the evening the journey was continued southwards along Schnauder 

 Island which appeared to be separated from the island further north 

 by a narrow sound. 



Mail 23rd. This day also they passed several cracks in the ice. 

 In the evening the tent was raised a few kilometers Avest of the south 

 point of Schnauder Island. 



On May 24th they reached Pariser Islands, west of which the 

 tent was raised at midday. 



May 25th. Dense fog. As they had no more dog food left they 

 could not remain at this place. It was of importance to reach the 

 Nordre Depot as soon as possible. In spite of the fog they succeeded- 

 in finding the depot after covering 46 kilometers in 12 hours. The 

 dogs were also very much exhausted and one of them died here. G. 

 Thostrup and Wegener were also worn out. In the last two nights 

 they had only got 3 and 5 hours sleep respectively. But the carto- 

 graphic work had been carried out carefully and Wegener with his 

 usual energy had made physical observations and taken photographs, 

 many of them coloured. 



From the depot they took the necessary provisions both for the 

 men and the dogs. The measurements and observations were made 

 and all other necessary work executed, which forced them to remain 

 at the depot till the evening of the next day. 



On May 27th they reached Hagens Island after having covered 

 39 kilometers. Here they found plenty of provisions laid out under 

 great difficulties by the drag-sledge parties sent out from the ship. 

 Now they could at last get enough sleep. For in spite of the fairly 

 long halt at Nordre Depot they had only had a few hour's sleep there 

 with all the different work they had to do. Owing to a strong wind 

 they did not continue the journey till the evening of the 28th. 



On May 29th they reached Cape Amélie, the 30tk Cape Marie 

 Valdemar and on the 31st G. Thostrup and Wegener returned to 

 the ship after 65 days' absence. 



The journey had in every respect been very satisfactory, even 

 though it had at times been extremely fatiguing and dangerous. The 

 weather had on the whole been good and G. Thostrup had succeeded 

 in the task given him and had supplemented the measurements of 

 Koch made on the journey wth other surveys, especially of the outer 



