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 . known Polar Sea; and yet I should like toget to the Pole, too, and hope that it wull be possible todo so, if only we can reach 84° or 85° by March. Andwhy should we not? Thursday, September 27th. Have determined that,beginning from to-morrow, every man is to go out snow-shoeing two hours daily, from 11 to i, so long as thedaylight lasts. It is necessary. If anything happenedthat obliged us to make our way home over the ice, I amafraid s
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 . known Polar Sea; and yet I should like toget to the Pole, too, and hope that it wull be possible todo so, if only we can reach 84° or 85° by March. Andwhy should we not? Thursday, September 27th. Have determined that,beginning from to-morrow, every man is to go out snow-shoeing two hours daily, from 11 to i, so long as thedaylight lasts. It is necessary. If anything happenedthat obliged us to make our way home over the ice, I amafraid some of the company would be a terrible hinderanceto us, unpractised as they are now. Several of them are * See Geographical Journal, London, 1S93. See also the map inNatiircn, 1890, and the Norwegian Geographical Societys Year Book, I.,i8go. 542 FARTHEST NORTH first-rate snovv-shoers, but five or six of them would soonbe feeling the pleasures of learning; if they had to goout on a long course, and without snow-shoes, it wouldbe all over with us. After this we used to go out regularly in a being good exercise, it was also a great pleasure;. SNOW-SHOE PRACTICE (SEPTEMBER 28, 1894) (By H. Egidius, froiii a PliotograpJi) every one seemed to thrive on it, and they all becameaccustomed to the use of the shoes on this ground, eventhough they often got them broken in the unevennessesof the pressure-ridges ; we just patched and riveted themtogether to break them again. Monday, October ist. We tried a hand-sledge to- SECOND AUTUMN IN THE ICE S43 day with a load of 250 pounds. It went along easily, andyet was hard to draw, because the snow-shoes were apt toslip to the side on the sort of surface we had. I almostbelieve that Indian snow-shoes would be better on thisground, where there are so many knobs and smoothhillocks to draw the sledges over. When Amundsen firstbegan to pull the sledge he thought it was nothing atall; but when he had gone on for a time he fell into afit
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