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 . miserable, thin wretch that he is escap-ing for the present. They were unmanageable at first,and rushed about in all directions; but in a little whilethey drew like old dogs, and were altogether better thanwe expected. Kvik, of course, set them a noble ex-ample. It fell to Mogstads lot to begin the training, asit was his week for looking after the dogs. This duty istaken in turns now, each man has his week of attendingto them both morni
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 . miserable, thin wretch that he is escap-ing for the present. They were unmanageable at first,and rushed about in all directions; but in a little whilethey drew like old dogs, and were altogether better thanwe expected. Kvik, of course, set them a noble ex-ample. It fell to Mogstads lot to begin the training, asit was his week for looking after the dogs. This duty istaken in turns now, each man has his week of attendingto them both morninQ[ and afternoon. It seems to me that a very satisfactory state of feelingprevails on board at present, when we are just enteringon our second Arctic night, which we hope is to be alonger, and probably also a colder, one than any people * These were the puppies born on December 13, 1893; only four ofthem were now 54^ FAR THE S 2 NORTH before us have experienced. There is appreciably lesslight every day ; soon there will be none; but the goodspirits do not wane with the light. It seems to methat we are more uniformly cheerful than we have ever. BLOCK OF ICE (SEPTEMBER 28, 1894) {From a Photograph] been. What the reason of this is I cannot tell; perhapsjust custom. But certainly, too, we are well off—inclover, as the saying is. We are drifting gently, but itis to be hoped surely, on through the dark unknown SECOND AUTUMN IN THE ICE 547 Nivlheim, where terrified fancy has pictured all possiblehorrors. Yet we are living a life of luxury and plenty,surrounded by all the comforts of civilization. I thinkwe shall be better off this winter than last. The firing apparatus in the galley is working splen-didly, and the cook himself is now of opinion that it is aninvention which approaches perfection. So we shall burnnothing but coal-oil there now; it warms the place well,and a good deal of the heat comes up here into the work-room, where I sometimes sit and perspire until I ha
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