. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. on deck in an in-stant. It was the ice, which was in a perfect uproar,making a rumbling noise like an infuriated man whocannot control his temper. This morning masses ofice pressed up against both sides of the stern in greatpiles. Suddenly, and without our having been warnedby any previous sound, these piles of ice must havefallen down over the stern as the floes receded fromthe ship. It was a tremendous crack, but the Frani withstoodit. We all agreed that no other ship could have stoodthe pressure we had experienced up to
. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. on deck in an in-stant. It was the ice, which was in a perfect uproar,making a rumbling noise like an infuriated man whocannot control his temper. This morning masses ofice pressed up against both sides of the stern in greatpiles. Suddenly, and without our having been warnedby any previous sound, these piles of ice must havefallen down over the stern as the floes receded fromthe ship. It was a tremendous crack, but the Frani withstoodit. We all agreed that no other ship could have stoodthe pressure we had experienced up to the presenttime. The ice broke up into pieces, which, as a rule,were forced in under the ship, which, in consequence,was gradually lifted up. The pressure went on forsome time during the afternoon. At six oclock itbegan again, this time accompanied by a thundering-noise and uproar. We were having our supper, butsome of us went on deck to have a look at the turmoilaround us, while those who remained behind in thesaloon had to shout at the top of their voices in order. 2 J S -3 rilE • 65 to be heard. Nanscn, who fori>ot nolhinii in conncLlionWilli IJK equipment of the expedition, had Iven think-ing of lakini;- a plionoi^rapli with him, but it came tonothing- after all. It would, however, have been mostinteresting to be able to bring home with us the voiceof this generall} silent desert of ice, groaning inanger, as it seemed, because mankind had ventured toforce their way into it to lay bare its hidden Fviun was screwed 4° over to the port side. Blessing and Nordahl had been unlucky at cards oflate, and had lost their rations of French rolls andcakes for the whole of the next month. Poor fellows,they now had to be content with the hard rye biscuits. On the loth of December appeared the first numberof our paper, the Framsjaa} It began well, and dis-cussed all sorts of subjects; Blessing was the respon-sible editor. December 13th was a day full
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