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 . that my feats had been unobserved. In the afternoon I examined the melted water of thenewly formed brownish-red ice, of which there is a gooddeal in the openings round us here. The microscopeproved this color to be produced by swarms of small or-ganisms, chiefly plants—quantities of diatom^e and somealgce, a few of them very peculiar in form. Saturday, October 21st. I have stayed in to-daybecause of an affection of the muscles, or rheum
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 . that my feats had been unobserved. In the afternoon I examined the melted water of thenewly formed brownish-red ice, of which there is a gooddeal in the openings round us here. The microscopeproved this color to be produced by swarms of small or-ganisms, chiefly plants—quantities of diatom^e and somealgce, a few of them very peculiar in form. Saturday, October 21st. I have stayed in to-daybecause of an affection of the muscles, or rheumatism,which I have had for some days on the right side ofmy body, and for which the doctor is massagingme, thereby greatly adding to my sufferings. HaveI really grown so old and palsied, or is the wholething imagination .f* It is all I can do to limp about;but I just wonder if I could not get up and run withthe best of them if there happened to be any greatoccasion for it: I almost believe I could. A niceArctic hero of 32, lying here in my berth! Havehad a good time reading home letters, dreaming my-self at home, dreaming of the home-coming — in how. THE WINTER NIGHT 291 many years? Successful or unsuccessful, what does thatmatter? I had a sounding taken ; it showed over ]2^ fathoms(135 m.), so we are in deeper water again. The sound-ing-line indicated that we are drifting southwest. I donot understand this steady drift southw^ard. There hasnot been much wind either lately; there is certainly alittle from the north to-day, but not strong. What canbe the reason of it ? With all my information, all myreasoning, all my putting of two and two together, I can-not account for any south-going current here — thereought to be a north-going one. If the current runssouth here, how is that great open sea w^e steamed northacross to be explained ? and the bay we ended infarthest north ? These could only be produced by thenorth-going current which I presupposed. The onlything which puts
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