Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by DrNansen and LieutJohansen . ached villa built for her where she couldbe at peace with her child. One evening, when Mogstad was housing the puppies forthe night, two of them were missing. Henriksen and I atonce set off with lanterns and guns to hunt for them. Wethought that there had been a bear in the neighborhood, aswe had heard a great deal of barking earlier in the day outupon the ice to the east of the ship; but we could find notracks. After supper we set out
Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by DrNansen and LieutJohansen . ached villa built for her where she couldbe at peace with her child. One evening, when Mogstad was housing the puppies forthe night, two of them were missing. Henriksen and I atonce set off with lanterns and guns to hunt for them. Wethought that there had been a bear in the neighborhood, aswe had heard a great deal of barking earlier in the day outupon the ice to the east of the ship; but we could find notracks. After supper we set out again, five of us, all carryinglanterns. After an hours search along the lanes and up in thepressure-ridges we at last found the puppies on the other sideof a new lane. Although the new ice on the lane was strongenough to bear them, they were so terrified after having beenin the water that they dared not come over to us, and we hadto make a long detour to get hold of them. In the middle of December we took the youngest puppieson board, as they had now grown so big, and ran away if theywere not very closely watched. The gangway was left open at o O dO 00. AUGUST 15 TO JANUARY /, iSg6 661 night so that the mothers could come into them from the icewhenever they wanted to. In respect to temper, there was a great difference betweenthe generation of dogs we had originally taken on board andthose we now had. While the former were great fighters, per-petually at feud with each other, and often to the death, the lat-ter were exceedingly quiet and well-behaved, although wild andfierce enough when it came to chasing a bear. Now and thenthere would be a little squabble among them, but this was was the worst of them. Shortly before Christmas heall of a sudden made a fierce attack upon the unoffending Kobben, against whom he bore a grudge. But he got theropes-end for supper several times, and that improved his man-ners amazingly. During the first half of September the weather was v
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