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 . fNorthern Siberia have no vehicles but sledges. Thesummer sledge is somewhat higher than the wintersledge, in order that it may not hang fast upon stonesand stumps. As may be supposed, however, summersledging is anything but smooth work. After supper we went ashore, and were soon on theflat beach of Khabarova, the Russians and Samoyedesregarding us with the utmost curiosity. The first ob-jects to attract our attention were the two churc
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 . fNorthern Siberia have no vehicles but sledges. Thesummer sledge is somewhat higher than the wintersledge, in order that it may not hang fast upon stonesand stumps. As may be supposed, however, summersledging is anything but smooth work. After supper we went ashore, and were soon on theflat beach of Khabarova, the Russians and Samoyedesregarding us with the utmost curiosity. The first ob-jects to attract our attention were the two churches—anold venerable-looking wooden shed, of an oblong rectan-gular form, and an octagonal pavilion, not unlike manysummer-houses or garden pavilions that I have seen athome. How far the divergence between the two formsof religion was indicated in the two mathematical figures ii6 FARTHEST NORTH I am unable to say. It might be that the simpHcity ofthe old faith was expressed in the simple, four-sidedbuildino^, while the rites and ceremonies of the otherwere typified in the octagonal form, with its doublenumber of corners to stumble aoainst. Then we must. THE NEW CHURCH AND THE OLD CHURCH AT KHABAROVA [From a PlutografJi) go and see the monastery— Skit, as it was called—where the six monks had lived, or rather died, from whatpeople said was scurvy, probably helped out by lay over against the new church, and resembled anordinary low Russian timber-house. The priest and FAREWELL TO NORWAY Wf his assistants were living there now, and had askedTrontheim to take up his quarters witli them. Tront-heim, therefore, invited us in, and we soon found our-selves in a couple of comfortable log-built rooms withopen fireplaces like our Norwegian peis. After this we proceeded to the dog-camp, which wassituated on a plain at some distance from the houses andtents. As we approached it the howling and barkingkept getting worse and worse. When a short distanceoff we were surprised to
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