[written 31-V] Got away from Skansen at (115) 9 h.m. in Geissler's kalmmotik, 9 dogs, my bag- yage being taken by Adam, 8 dogs, and Jus- tave, 8 dogs. There was so much water on the sea ice that we kept to the ice foot for about two hours, wallowing along on deep soft snow with slight but increasingly thicker crust on it. When the crew jumped down into it knee deep - sometimes mid-thigh deep. About 11 h. m. we went down into the sea ice, but it was bad and we broke through two or three times but not badly. Then we struck an area where we cut through thin ice covering slush under which was firm. Two miles of this ice and new Nuk (2) miles to the land and ice foot again for some miles. At 10 manguit we went again onto the sea ice - I did not like it much but Geissler assured me that it was all right, and it was. He said "me plenty strong ice - all right. Aisyungela." & Geissler drove himself smart enough, but he was one of the best drivers that I look, keeping the other men in front, guiding them - especially Gustave - and not letting his dogs over run the kalmmotik in advance. The ride here was a- long the base of some of the almost vertical cliffs of columnar basalt which I skated in the Chetts motor boat-