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 . gewas the worst of all, and before it yawned a crack in thethick ice about 12 feet deep. When the first sledgewas going over all the dogs fell in and had to be hauledup again. One of them — Klapperslangen — slippedhis harness and ran away. As the next sledge wasgoing over it fell in bodily, but happily was not smashedto atoms, as it might have been. We had to unload itentirely in order to get it up again, and then reload, allof which to
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 . gewas the worst of all, and before it yawned a crack in thethick ice about 12 feet deep. When the first sledgewas going over all the dogs fell in and had to be hauledup again. One of them — Klapperslangen — slippedhis harness and ran away. As the next sledge wasgoing over it fell in bodily, but happily was not smashedto atoms, as it might have been. We had to unload itentirely in order to get it up again, and then reload, allof which took up a great deal of time. Then, too, thedogs had to be thrown down and dragged up on theother side. With the third sledge we managed better,and after we had gone a little way farther the runawaydog came back. At last we reached a camping-ground,pitched our tent, and found that the thermometer showed 154 FA A THE ST NOR TH — ° Fahr. ( — 43° C). Disentangling dog-traces in thistemperature with ones bare, frost-bitten, almost skinlesshands is desperate work. But finally we were in ourdear bag, with the l Primus singing cozily, when, to .£.. A NIGHT CAMP ON THE JOURNEY NORTH crown our misfortunes, I discovered that it would notburn, I examined it everywhere, but could find noth-ing wrong, Johansen had to turn out and go and fetchthe tools and a reserve burner while I studied the WE SAY GOOD-BYE TO THE FEAM 155 cooker. At last I discovered that some ice had o-ot inunder the lid, and this had caused a leakage. Finallywe got it to light, and at 5 oclock in the morning thepea-soup was ready, and very good it was. At three inthe afternoon I was up again cooking. Thank Heaven,it is warm and comfortable in the bag, or this sort oflife would be intolerable ! Sunday, March 31st. Yesterday, at last, came thelong-wished-for change of weather, with southerly windand rising temperature. Early this morning the ther-mometer showed -22° Fahr. (-30 C), regular summerweather, in fa
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