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at last at the large naze, of which we were to see the northern side 

 the next day and made a halt there a little before noon ^ 



(April 25th). 



April 26th. After taking some food, Mylius and I early in the 

 morning went up on the high land to investigate the land in front- 

 of us. Up there we could see that the coast line turned more towards 

 the west. We could not distinguish much of the land far away, saw 

 only a large glacier in the distance, nor were we able to see the ice a 

 long way off, our position was too low. After coming back we had 

 another short nap and started again in the afternoon. We parted 

 from TiiosTRUP and Wegener, who were now going back to the ship. 

 After proceeding a short distance on the ice-foot we reached some 

 good, smooth ice; we drove down on it and stopped in the morning 

 on the northern side of the glacier end ^. On the way we drove along 

 the border of a large opening partly covered by thin ice. 



April 27th. We slept and then drove on, delayed again by lashing 

 up the sledges. Early in the morning at 3 a. m. (April 28th) we pro- 

 ceeded on the thin ice round the large glacier naze and saw the land 

 before us, nothing but glaciers. The ice was excellent and we could 

 have driven a long distance but came across a bear (a she-bear) and 

 therefore halted a little before noon ^. 



April 29th. Shall we ever reach our goal, the large bay ? 



In front of us there was nothing to be seen but inland-ice. We 

 have for a long time been expecting every day to turn westwards 

 and we are constantly moving northwards. At last we have begun 

 to say to each other, that Peary may probably only have been on 

 some nunatakker * and considered these to be coastal mountains. 

 It must now soon be seen how matters stand. In the beginning of 

 our journey we had excellent ice to drive upon, latterly it has become 

 very bad. We proceed along a fairly low glacier and without being 

 able to see ice-free land we pitch our tent. At 7.45 we woke up. 



(We saw a piece of wood projecting from the sea-ice). 



April 30th. When we broke up from the so-called nunatakker, 

 we followed the border of the glacier for about 8 miles, then drove 

 down on the ice, horrible old ice over which we had to make many 

 windings and turnings, with no hard layer of snow, heavy to drive 

 on, so that we were constantly obliged to walk behind the uprights. 

 We sighted a naze which we considered to be ice-free land and steered 



' This was the 2.5th April. The tent-place was south of Amdrups Land ca. 

 15 kilometers west of Henrik Kroyers Holme. 



= It was the ä7th of April. The tent was raised on Ihe northern side of Ant- 

 arctic Bay. 



' 81°07' N. lat. 



' Snow-free hill-lops ranging above the inlanfl ice. 



