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 . ipped a little way, and water rose in the hole, but thisdid not come to much, and presently the borer struck onice again. They went on for some time, but now theborer would reach no farther, and Peter had to be calledup to cut his four feet. He and Amundsen worked awayat cutting till they were dripping with , as usual, was very eager, and vowed he wouldnot give in till he had got through it, even if it were 30feet t
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 . ipped a little way, and water rose in the hole, but thisdid not come to much, and presently the borer struck onice again. They went on for some time, but now theborer would reach no farther, and Peter had to be calledup to cut his four feet. He and Amundsen worked awayat cutting till they were dripping with , as usual, was very eager, and vowed he wouldnot give in till he had got through it, even if it were 30feet thick. Meanwhile Bentzen had turned in, but a mes-sa2:e was sent to him to sav that the hole was cut, andthat boring could now begin again. When it was only aninch or an inch and a half short of 20 feet the borerslijDped through, and the water spurted up and filled thehole. They now sank a lead-line down it, and at 30 feetit again brought up against ice. Now they were obligedto give it up. A fine lump of ice w^e are lying on ! Nottaking into account a large, loose ice-floe that is lying-packed up on the ice, it is 16 inches above the water; and On 004^ I. THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF i8g4 463 adding to this the 2 feet which tlie Fram is raised upabove the ice, there is no small distance between her andthe water. The temperature on the ice in summer is about thaw-ing-point, but gradually as the winter cold comes on, it,of course, falls rapidly on the surface, whence the coldslowly penetrates deeper and deeper down towards thelower surface, where it naturally keeps at an even temper-ature with the underlying water. Observations of thetemperature of the ice in its different layers were con-stantly taken in order to ascertain how quickly this cool-ing-down process of the ice took place during the winter,and also how the temperature rose again towards lowest temperature of the ice occurred in March andthe beginning of April, when at metres it was Fahr. (—16 C),
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