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 . pportunity here of observing how theyassume forms like ice - mountains with high, straightsides, caused by the splitting of old ridges transverselyin several directions. I have often on this journey seenmassive high hummocks with similar square sides, andof great circumference, sometimes quite resembling snow-covered islands. They are of palaeocrystic ice, as goodas any one can wish.* I was constrained at last to return with my missionu
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 . pportunity here of observing how theyassume forms like ice - mountains with high, straightsides, caused by the splitting of old ridges transverselyin several directions. I have often on this journey seenmassive high hummocks with similar square sides, andof great circumference, sometimes quite resembling snow-covered islands. They are of palaeocrystic ice, as goodas any one can wish.* I was constrained at last to return with my missionunaccomplished. Nearly the most annoying thing about * We saw no real ice-mountains at any period of our journey beforewe got under land; everything was sea-ice. The same was the caseduring the drift of the Fram. A HARD STRUGGLE I85 it was that on the other side of the lane I could see finefiat ice stretching southwardâand now to be obliged tocamp here and wait! I had, however, already possessedmy soul in patience, when, on coming back to ouroriginal stopping-place, I found a tolerably good crossingclose by it. We eventually got to the other side, with. â ..â¢---â *fi. JOHANSEN CARVING OUR NAMES IN A STOCK OFDRIFT-WOOD. the ice grinding under our feet the while, and by thattime it was 6 oclock in the morning. We kept at it alittle while longer over beautiful flat ice, but the dogswere tired, and it was nearly 48 hours since they hadbeen fed. As we were hastening along we suddenlycame across an immense piece of timber sticking up 186 FARTHEST NORTH obliquely from the surface of the ice. It was Siberianlarch, as far as I could make out, and probably raised inthis manner through pressure long ago. Many a goodmeal could we have cooked with it had we been able todrag it with us, but it was too heavy. We marked it F. N., H. J., 85 30 N., and went on our way. 1 Plains of ice still before us. I am looking forwardto getting under way. Gliding over this flat surface onones snow-shoes
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