224 G. Amdrup. 



H. The period from the discovery of Jørgen Brønlund to 

 the return voyage. 



While Kocii was away on the rehet' and search sledge expedition 

 in the north, Trolle together with Hagerup and Fritz Johansen 

 made an excursion with drag-sledge from the 16th to the 30th of March 

 for hydrographical and zoological purposes. They travelled down 

 along the west side of Store Koldewey Island to a little south of Bergs 

 Fjord, then turned due westwards out on the bay, thereafter up to- 

 wards Orientering Islands and from there home again. It was a fati- 

 guing tour, the temperature being down at — 35° C. For hydrogra- 

 ])hical purposes they sometimes cut holes in the ice, which was about 

 2 meters thick. 



From the 17th Lo the 25tli of March another party, consisting 

 of Peter Hansen, Jarner and Hendrik Olsen, made a drag-sledge 

 expedition to Oi'ientering Islands and Hvalrosodden, in order to raise 

 a tent at the iirst-mentioned place and deposit provisions etc. at both 

 places, all in view of the summer excursions. In order to facilitate 

 these, Trolle as in the previous year had tents raised at various 

 places in the neighbourhood of Danmarks Fjord. 



On March 26th Tobias Gabrielsen and Koch returned with the 

 sad news that Mylius-Erichsen, Ноеп Hagen and .Iorgen Brøn- 

 lund had perished (see p. 195). 



Reference has already been made to the deep soii'dw and gbidin, 

 that settled down on all onboard, now that the tragic fate of th(> ;i 

 lost men was ascertained. 



It would not have been .surprising indeed, if these sad news along 

 with their uncertain fate — they did not know whether the ship would 

 be able to get out of the ice during the coming summer or whether 

 they might perhaps be obliged to leave it and retreat southwards — 

 had had a depressing effect on the members of the Expedition and 

 reduced their working power. 



This was not so, however, the energy of the members appeared 

 to be the same and during the following months one expedition after 

 another set out in order to complete and extend the great and splendid 

 results already obtained. (See list of the journeys made from the 

 station in Danmarks Havn). 



On April 3rd Lindhard, Wegener and Weinschengk returned 

 from their extremely interesting journey to "Dronning Louises Land" 

 (see p. 186). Bertelsen, the leader of the expedition, had been left 

 at the station in Pustervig, where he relieved Charles Poulsen. 



Koch was now also intent upon making a journey to this land, 



