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 . romping and playing around usfrom mornincr to evenino^, and a little of the niirht aswell. I can watch them with pleasure by the hour to-gether, or play with them as with little children—have agame at hide-and-seek with them round the skylight,the while they are beside themselves with glee. It isthe largest and strongest of the lot that has just died,a handsome dog; I called him Lova (Lion). He wassuch a confiding, gentle animal, and so
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 . romping and playing around usfrom mornincr to evenino^, and a little of the niirht aswell. I can watch them with pleasure by the hour to-gether, or play with them as with little children—have agame at hide-and-seek with them round the skylight,the while they are beside themselves with glee. It isthe largest and strongest of the lot that has just died,a handsome dog; I called him Lova (Lion). He wassuch a confiding, gentle animal, and so yesterday he was jumping and playing about andrubbing: himself as^ainst me, and to-dav he is dead. Ourranks are thinning, and the worst of it is we try in vainto make out what it is that ails them. This one wasapparently quite in his normal condition and as cheerfulas ever until his breakfast was given him ; then he be-gan to cry and tear round, yelping and barking as ifdistracted, just as the others had done. After this con-vulsions set in, and the froth poured from his of these convulsions no doubt carried him off. &. ^ THE SPRING AXD SUMMER OF iSg4 479 Blessing and I held a post viortcni upon him in theafternoon, but we could discover no signs of anythingunusual. It does not seem to be an infectious cannot understand it. Ulenka, too, the handsomest doo: in the wholepack, our consolation and our hope, suddenly became illthe other day. It was the morning of May 24th thatwe found it paralyzed and quite helpless, lying in itscask on deck. It kept trying to get up, but couldnt, andimmediately fell down again—just like a man who hashad a stroke and has lost all power over his limbs. Itwas at once put to bed in a box and nursed most care-fully; except for being unable to walk, it is apparentlyquite well. It must have been a kind of apoplecticseizure that attacked the spinal cord in some spot orother, and paralyzed one side of the body. The
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