198 G. Amdrip. 



April ISth. Before breaking u|) we had to repair tlie sledges. 

 The miserable frost-fog was again coming on and in the night it began 

 to blow hard. The sledges in winter-time. 



April 19th. Bad weather again, with driving snow. ( )ur dogs 

 are now constantly eating the lashings of the sledges. 



April 20th. To-day I heard the chirping of birds at the foot of 

 a hill; on journeys so far north one longs to hear that sort of thing. 

 The weather liad again become good, quite bright. The large fore- 

 land ^ we had reached was extremely beautiful, with streaks of differ- 

 ent layers; it greatly resembles the large island north of Cape York, 

 where we wintered. Mylius and I in our sledges tried to get round 

 the mountain, which we took to be a large foreland, but as we could 

 not proceed in the heavy screw-ice we tried on foot. We walked 12 

 miles without seeing the other end of the mountain and therefore 

 turned round tired and discouraged by the long way we still had be- 

 fore us. When we came back Tobias and Thostrui' penetrated into 

 a fjord -, which we took to be a sound, in order to investigate it. 



April 21.st. Tobias and his companion returned in the morning 

 without having found any way into the fjord. Towards the evening 

 we intended to forward only half our loads. We meant to go out to 

 sea, as the worst screw-ice lay along the land. When we were on the 

 point of starting (my comrades had inspanned the dogs) we saw a 

 bear which was shot. It severely hurt two of my dogs and caused 

 some injury to two others. On foot we reached the place desired and 

 unloaded the sledges: we then turned round and returned towards 

 the morning. 



April 22nd. We reached the load carried on the day before and 

 drove up on the land there. 



April 23rd. We started again, proceeding almost the whole time 

 on the ice-foot. After rounding what we considered to be a foreland, 

 we came across some very old tent-places and found various objects, 

 heads and bones of walrus, and also the bones of a whale. 



April 24th towards the evening. The old story over again: just 

 as we had hnished securing the load on the sledges and were on the 

 point of starting, we observed a large bear. Tobias shot one of the 

 dogs instead of the bear. As we had taken down our tents and did 

 not want to remain there all night, 1 took the bear on my sledge while 

 my comrades took the heaviest part of my load, except my sleeping 

 bag and my reserve clothes. It was not an easy load, especially as 

 my dogs were very exhausted, and my "bas", the largest of my dogs, 

 had been bitten so severely by the bear that it was unfit for use. 



The ice was very easy and quite smooth for driving purposes, 

 and running mostly in the uprights we covered 24 miles. Arrived 



' Mallemukfjælfl. 



' The fjord leading to Hekla Sound and Dijinplma Sound. 



