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 . signs of reckon now to have left the eighty-fourth parallel be-hind us. -Friday, May 10th. + Fahr. (° C). Ourlife has many difficulties to combat. Yesterday promisedto be a good day, but thick weather hindered our ad-vance. When we crept out of the tent yesterday fore-noon it was fine, the sun was shining, the going wasunusually good, and the ice appeared to be unusuallyeven. We had managed in the snow-storm of the pre-
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 . signs of reckon now to have left the eighty-fourth parallel be-hind us. -Friday, May 10th. + Fahr. (° C). Ourlife has many difficulties to combat. Yesterday promisedto be a good day, but thick weather hindered our ad-vance. When we crept out of the tent yesterday fore-noon it was fine, the sun was shining, the going wasunusually good, and the ice appeared to be unusuallyeven. We had managed in the snow-storm of the pre-vious evening to get into a belt of foul ice, which wasmerely local. Before we started we thought of takingthe removable wooden runners off the sledges, but ontrying mine beforehand found that it ran well as it decided, therefore, to wait a little longer, as I was afraid A HARD STRUGGLE 203 that removing the wooden runners might weaken thesledge. Johansen, meanwhile, had taken them off themiddle sledge; but as we then discovered that one ofthe birch runners had split right across under one ofthe uprights, there was nothing for it but to put it on. V- WE MADE FAIRLY GOOD PROGRESS again. It was a pity, though, as the sledge would haverun much better on the newly tarred runners than on thescratched under-runners. We made fairly good progress,in spite of there being only 13 dogs left — 4 to mysledge, 4 to the birch sledge, and 5 to Johansens. Butlater in the afternoon the weather thickened rapidly 204 FARTHEST NORTH and snow began to fall, which prevented our seeinganything before us. The ice, however, was fairly even,and we kept going. We came across a lane, but thiswe crossed by means of a detour. Not long afterwardsao-ain we cot among a number of abominable pressure-ridges, and ran right into high mounds and over steepbrinks without seeing them. Wherever one turnedthere were sudden drops and pitfalls, although every-thing: looked so fair and even under its covering: of
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