172 G. Amdrup. 



In the end of November the motor-car was found near the shore 

 off Snenæs. Owing to its weight it had sunk through the ice down 

 to the bottom, where it froze fast and could not be saved. 



On October 1st Knud Christiansen, Hagerup and Gun- 

 DAHL Knudsen started for Morke Fjord. A small tent with provi- 

 sions was raised at Snenæs and another of the same kind at Hvalros- 

 odden, in order to be able to keep up the communication on foot with 

 Morke Fjord. At Hvalrosodden they met Freuchen and Jarner. 

 Owing to various things to be done and a snoAV-sturm they did not 

 start for Mørke Fjord till the ôth, on which day Jarner returned 

 to the ship. 



From the "Monument" and further in there was still open water. 

 Gundahl Knudsen therefore decided to built the house at the head 

 of Pustervig. 



The house that was raised had the following dimensions: 3.1 

 meters in length, 2 meters in breath and 1.9 meters in height. In 

 one end of the house and raised 0.6 meters above the floor they built 

 a sleeping platform for 3 men, which occupied half the space of the 

 house and would just accomodate 3 men in sleeping-bags. In the 

 one gable there was a small window and in the corner of the same 

 gable a door opening on the house-passage. The door was 1.2 meters 

 high and 0.8 meters broad, the house-passage l.ô meters long closed 

 by a door ca. 1 meter high. The flat roof was built of boards upon 

 which Avas placed a layer of birch-bark and thereover a layer of tarred 

 felt, kept together by a layer of flat stones. The whole house was 

 surrounded by a stonc-wali. 



From October 7th to the 11th Hagerup and from the Sth to the 

 lllh Knud Christiansen had to drive back to the ship in order 

 to fetch more timber. 



On October 11th Bistrup and Weinschenck arrived in order 

 to help with the building of the stone-wall. 



On October 14th Bistrup and Hagerup returned, on the 15th 

 the house was finished and on the 18th Knud Christiansen, Freu- 

 chen, Gundahl Knudsen and Weinschenck returned to the ship. 



At the station in Danmarks Havn all tlie various scientific in- 

 vestigations etc. had been continued. 



From the 24th to the 30th of September Koefoed and Chr. 

 Bendix Thostrup made minute surveys in the neighbourhood of 

 Syttenkilometernæsset and from the 5th to the 17th October on the 

 Koldewey Islands, while Koch from morning till night was busy with 

 calculations regarding the enormous surA^ey work of the Expedition. 



Further, Koch sometimes made astronomical observations in 

 the observatory built for this purpose. 



