186 G. Amdrup. 



March 9th. After depositing a sledge-case at the tent-place, the 

 ascent began. Nevertheless, the remaining load had to be taken up 

 in two portions. After getting up on the glacier, progress was fairly 

 good, though the ice was full of cracks and fissures covered with snow, 

 so that the men could not see them until they fell in. 



On the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th of March the journey was con- 

 tinued in the direction of Dronning Louises Land. The surface of 

 the inland ice was very rough and bore some resemblance to a sud- 

 denly frozen, undulating sea. The roughness increased from east to 

 west. On the 13th in the evening, only about 10 kilometers from Dron- 

 ning Louises Land, they came across ice-combs up to 10 meters high, 

 whilst earlier melting-ice hummocks had only varied between ^2 ^nd 

 4 meters. Bertelsen resolved therefore to raise the tent here and 

 proceed no further with the sledge. 



On March 14th Wegener and Weinschenck went towards 

 the land while Bertelsen and Lindhard remained near the tent, 

 to paint and sketch and to investigate a moraine extending north 

 and south beyond the tent-place. 



It appeareil that the inland ice ended in an almost vertical, ca. 

 25 meter high wall towards the snow-free Dronning Louises Land 

 near Cape Bellevue, where Wegener and Weinschenck succeeded 

 in finding a place in the ice wall to descend from the inland ice to the 

 land. Northwest of Cape Bellevue Wegener observed an extensive 

 lake quite filled \\\i\\ icebergs. 



On March 15th they started on the return journey and 

 on the 17th in the evening they were again down on Sælsø. 



From the 18th to the 22nd of March they made their way back 

 to Hvalrosodden by way of Sælsø. 



On March 19th the party made no advance owing to a 

 hurricane-like storm; though the tent had been raised on the lake 

 several kilometers from land, quantities of pebbles were carried out 

 and driven against the tent and at last with the tent-poles giving 

 Avay, the tent was blown down on the top of them. 



On March 20th the tent was pitched opposite the river in the 

 valley, on the northern side of the fjord. 



On March 21sl Bertelsen and several others proceeded 

 without sledge through the bottom of the valley and discovered that 

 at its other end there was another large lake the extent of which they 

 could not judge. Later on they named it Anneksso. 



On March 22nd the party reached Pustervig, anil in spite 

 of mist and snow-storm succeeded in making a survey of Mørke Fjord. 

 After Bertelsen had relieved Charles Poulsen at the station in 

 Pustervig, the sledge party proceeded homewards on the 1st of April 

 and arrived at the ship on the .3rd. 



