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 . arlyhow the coast ran on account of a headland to thesouthward. But it did not seem to trend to the south-east, so that we could not be near Cape Lofley. Wenow hoped that we might be able to launch our kayaksthe very next day, and that we should then make rapidprogress in a southwesterly direction; but in this wewere disappointed. The next day there was a snow-storm, and we had to stay where we were. As I lay inthe bag in the morning, p
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 . arlyhow the coast ran on account of a headland to thesouthward. But it did not seem to trend to the south-east, so that we could not be near Cape Lofley. Wenow hoped that we might be able to launch our kayaksthe very next day, and that we should then make rapidprogress in a southwesterly direction; but in this wewere disappointed. The next day there was a snow-storm, and we had to stay where we were. As I lay inthe bag in the morning, preparing breakfast, I all atonce caught sight of a bear walking quietly past us ata distance of about twenty paces. It looked at us andour kayaks once or twice, but could not quite make outwhat we were, as the wind was in another direction andit could not get scent of us, so it continued its way. Ilet it go unharmed; we still had food enough. On Saturday, May 23d, the weather was still bad, butwe went ahead a little way to examine our road point to be found out was whether we ought atonce to make for the open water, that lay on the other CO0\. THE JOURNEY SOUTHWARD 493 side of an island to the west, or whether we ought totravel southward upon the shore-ice along the land. Wecame to a headland consisting of uncommonly markedcolumnar basalt, which on account of its peculiar formwe called the Castle. * We here saw that the landstretched farther in a southerly direction, and that theopen water went the same way, only separated fromthe land by a belt of shore-ice. As the latter appearedto be full of cracks, we decided to go over to the isl-and in the west, and put to sea as quickly as therefore returned and made all ready. Our prep-arations consisted, first and foremost, in carefully calk-ing the seams of our kayaks by melting stearine overthem, and then restowing the cargo so as to leave roomfor us to sit in them. The following day (Sunday,May 24th) we moved
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