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took sledge journeys for ethnographical purposes to Cape Marie Valde- 

 mar and Baadskær. 



From June 11th to the 21st Bistrup along with Hagerup made 

 an excursion лу11Ь the dog-sledge to the bay off Brede Bræ (Broad 

 Glacier) to carry out cartographical work. 



This was the last journey with the dog-sledge. With the drag- 

 sledge, however, some more excursions were made. 



From June 24th to 26th and from June 29th to July 8th Hagerup 

 and Trolle undertook drag-sledge journeys to the waters between 

 Maroussia and Lille Koldewey Island and to the sound betAveen the 

 two Koldewey Islands. 



From June 27th to July 4th Lindhard and Koch journeyed 

 with drag-sledge to Winges Coast, to prepare a detailed chart of a 

 part of this Coast. 



With this the drag-sledge journeys also came to an end. But a 

 number of excursions were still made by boat and on foot. 



Before these are mentioned, a brief description may be given of 

 the most prolonged of the above-mentioned journeys with drag-sledge 

 and with dog-sledge. 



Sledge journey to Ardencaple Inlet and Shannon Island, 



15/, to "/^, 1908. 



The main object of the journey was to make a thorough geologi- 

 cal survey of Ardencaple Inlet and neighbourhood. An attempt would 

 also be made to penetrate into the inner, completely unknown part 

 of Ardencaple Inlet and investigate and take measurements there. 

 To procure dog food for the journey a visit would first be made to 

 the depot at Cape Philip Broke on Shannon Island, and the post of 

 the Expedition was to be deposited there. 



The members of the expedition, which was led by J arner, were 

 Tobias Gabrielsen and Hendrik Olsen. 



On April 15th the party set out with 2 sledges and 22 dogs. To 

 begin with, however, they gave up 6 of the dogs to the small drag- 

 sledge of Bistrup and Hagerup, so that they had only 8 dogs to each 

 of their two Eskimo sledges. After travelling 34 kilometers by odo- 

 meter, they raised the tent at 4 p. ra. on the ice west of Store Kolde- 

 wey Island. 



On April Kith the going was very heavy. To make the advance 

 easier Jarner set off on his skis in front of the sledge to mark out 

 the route. When about 24 kilometers had been travelled from 9 a. m. 

 to 4..30 p. m. the tent was raised on the ice almost at the level of Teu- 

 fel Cape. 



On April 17th the party had only advanced a couple of kilometers 

 from the tenting place of the previous day when they caught sight 



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