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 . On 00vO 7 v. ^3 LAND AT LAST 339 wind was so good that we ought to make use of it, andso we rigged up a sail on our fleet. We glided easilybefore the wind in towards the land we had so longed forall these many months. What a change, after havingforced ones way inch by inch and foot by foot on ice !The mist had hidden the land from us for a while, butnow it parted, and we saw the glacier rising straight infront of us. At the same moment
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 . On 00vO 7 v. ^3 LAND AT LAST 339 wind was so good that we ought to make use of it, andso we rigged up a sail on our fleet. We glided easilybefore the wind in towards the land we had so longed forall these many months. What a change, after havingforced ones way inch by inch and foot by foot on ice !The mist had hidden the land from us for a while, butnow it parted, and we saw the glacier rising straight infront of us. At the same moment the sun burst forth,and a more beautiful morning I can hardly were soon underneath the glacier, and had to lowerour sail and paddle westward along the wall of ice, whichwas from 50 to 60 feet in height, and on which a landingwas impossible. It seemed as if there must be littlemovement in this glacier; the water had eaten its waydeep underneath it at the foot, and there was no noiseof falling fragments or the cracking of crevasses to beheard, as there generally is with large glaciers. It wasalso quite even on the top, and no crevasses were to beseen. Up t
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