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journey, namely, to provide by hunting as much dog food as possible, 

 in order that they might be able to keep the large stock of dogs alive, 

 when the great sledge party returned from the north and they were 

 all again together at the ship. There were many other tasks they 

 wanted to perform with the help of the dogs as soon as the main ob- 

 ject of the expedition, the survey and investigation of the unknown 

 N.E. coast, had been carried out. They therefore made many excur- 

 sions, partly for game exclusively, partly for scientific purposes, but 

 they often carried on both together. 



It would lead too far to give a detailed description of all these 

 excursions. Many of them are not mentioned except in the "List 

 of the journeys made from the station in Danmarks Havn" at the 

 end of this report and only some of them need be referred to in detail, 

 among these the drag-sledge journey to the eastern side of St. Kolde- 

 wey Island. 



Drag-sledge Journey to Store Koldewey Island, 



'\U to V-o, 1907. 



The main object of the excursion was to make geological investiga- 

 tions on the eastern side of Store Koldewey Island and to hunt, 

 especially for big game. 



The members of this excursion were: Jarner, Hans Jensen, 

 Lindhard and Weinschenck. 



On April 28th at 11 a. m. the departure took place with a sledge 

 carrying a load of ca. 250 kg. 



On April 29th the expedition reached the place where Mylius- 

 Erichsen and the naturalists had landed on the 13th of August 1906 

 and where for the first time they set foot on Greenland's east coast. 

 The tent was pitched near the cairn and this was used as a starting 

 point for a number of excursions made during the following days. 



Jarner had the good luck to find some fossils and from a geolo- 

 gical point of view the result was good, but apart from 4 hares shot 

 by Hans Jensen the proceeds of the hunt were nil. 



On .May 2nd Hans Jensen and Lindhard went across Koldewey 

 Isl. through a pass running between the rocks. In the pass were two 

 lakes lying on terraces, one above the other and the whole of the sur- 

 rounding, rocky landscape was of an unusual, gorgeous nature. 



On May 3rd they began the return journey and on May 4th at 

 4.45 p. m. they again came back to the ship. 



The strong sunlight, which here on clear days shines all day and 

 night at this time of the year, was the cause of a slight attack of snow- 

 blindness from which Hans Jensen, Lindhard and Weinschenck 

 suffered. 



