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Trolle proposed, as the best mode of cooperating, that all the 

 members of the Expedition should select among themselves 4 men, 

 who together with Trolle should discuss all the questions he had 

 to lay before them. 



The members of the expedition agreed to this proposal and se- 

 lected AcHTON Friis, Gundahl Knudsen, Koch and Chr. Bendix 

 Thostrup as members of the so-called "Council". 



It was agreed by Trolle and this council, that it would be best 

 to send a sledge-party to the American depots on Bass Rock and 

 Shannon Island, partly to fetch some dog-food which they knew had 

 been deposited there and partly to ascertain how much exactly was 

 in the depots. In view of a possible retreat along the coast, it was 

 of great importance to have exact information on this point. 



It was specially necessary to get more dog-food, if the dogs were 

 to be kept alive for the relief sledge expedition in the coming spring. 



Sledge journey to Shannon Island and Bass Rock, 



25/11, 1907 to -3/1. 190^- 



The members of this sledge expedition were: Tobias Gabrielsen, 

 Hendrik Olsen, Charles Poulsen, G. Thostrup and Weinschenck. 

 G. Thostrltp was the leader and the plan was, as already mentioned, 

 to fetch some dog food from Bass Rock and Shannon Island and to 

 make a thorough survey of everything contained in the depots there ^. 



On the 25th 0/ November at 10 a. m. the departure took place. 

 At noon Cape Helgoland was passed and they now headed for Cape 

 Peschel. Out on the bay the sledging was not so good because of the 

 soft snow lying there. Half-way between the two Capes the tent 

 was raised. 



November 26th. In order to get close under land where the sled- 

 ging was supposed to be better, they steered doNvn on Teufel Cape 

 and from there across Roon Bay. On the bay, which was partly cover- 

 ed by new ice, they drove among many icebergs. In the evening 

 the tent was raised a little north of Cape Peschel. 



On the 27th of November the journey was continued along the 

 land where the ice was smooth and level. From Cape Ritter they 

 made for the mouth of Bessel Fjord. Towards night the tent was 

 raised a little north of the Haystack. 



November 2Sth. At noon they reached Haystack. Here G. Tho- 

 strup deposited two sledge-cases and the journey was continued along 

 Hochstetters Foreland. The tent was raised ca. 24 kilometers north 

 of Cape Rink. 



^ When Mylius-Erichsen made the sledge-e.xpeditioii to the Pendulum 

 Islands during the autumn of 1906, he did not succeed in reaching the depot at 

 Cape Philip Broke, because he found open water on the southern coast of Shannon 

 Island. See p. 94. 



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