240 G. Amduui'. 



I. Home voyage. 



On Juhj 21st at 6.45 p. m. the Danmark steered out of Danmarks 

 Havn, where it had found a safe anchorage for almost 2 years, and 

 f)ut between Maroussia and Lille Koldewey Island. At 10 p. m. they 

 moored to an ice-floe owing to fog. In the course of the night Lund- 

 AGER, Koch, Manniche and Chr. Bendix Thostrup made an excur- 

 sion \\'ith the motor-boat to Renskæret and Cape Bismarck for scientific 

 ])urposes. 



July 22nd. It would not have been surprising if the Expedition, 

 after its long absence from home of more than two years, had sailed 

 through the pack-ice belt and on homewards as quickly as possible. 

 But the energy of the Expedition did not fail right to the very last. 



Trolle desired to supplement his hydrographical series as much 

 as possible and at the same time to trawl, collect plankton, take sound- 

 ings and bottom samples. And he specially wanted to make these 

 investigations as far north as possible, because so far as he could see 

 there was this year a rare chance of carrying out scientific investiga- 

 tions in these waters, which as a rule certainly are impassable owing 

 to ice. He therefore steered northwards at 5 p. m. along the land 

 in very scattered ice. 



On July 23rd the ice conditions were again extremely favourable. 

 There was more open water than ice. They were constantly steering 

 northwards. 



July 24th when they reached the 78th degree of latitude they 

 steered eastwards at 6 a. m. It was foggy. In the fog the ship ran 

 against a large ice field and at this time the boiler sprang a leak. The 

 water had to be Ыолуп out of the boiler before the leakage could be 

 stopjied. While this was being done, they moored to the large ice- 

 field. 



(Jn July 2öth they again had fog. At о a. m. they cast loose 

 again, steering southwards along the border of some large ice-fields. 

 At 11 p. m. they again moored to an ice-floe owing to fog. 



On July 26th it was still very foggy and the ship almost the whole 

 day lay moored to the ice. Now and then they worked the ship a 

 little in order not to get enclosed by the ice, which gathered round 

 the ship. • 



On July 27th the fog lifted so much, that they succeeded in get- 

 ting out among more spread ice and now steered southwards. In 



