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 . ds. This is the result of awinters feeding on nothing but bears meat and fat inan Arctic climate. It is not quite like the experiencesof others in parallel circumstances; it must be our lazi-ness that has clone it. And here we are, living in peaceand quietness, waiting for the ship from home and forwhat the future will bring us, while everything is beingdone for us to make us forget a winters could not have fallen into bet
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 . ds. This is the result of awinters feeding on nothing but bears meat and fat inan Arctic climate. It is not quite like the experiencesof others in parallel circumstances; it must be our lazi-ness that has clone it. And here we are, living in peaceand quietness, waiting for the ship from home and forwhat the future will bring us, while everything is beingdone for us to make us forget a winters could not have fallen into better hands, and it is im-possible to describe the unequalled hospitality and kind-ness we meet with on all hands, and the comfort we it the years privations and want of human society, is THE JOURNEY SOUTHWARD 541 it common interests, that so draw us to these men inthese desolate regions ? I do not know ; but we arenever tired of talking, and it seems as if we had knownone another for years, instead of having met for the firsttime a few days ago. Wednesday, June 23d. It is now three years sincewe left home. As we sat at the dinner-table this even-. A CHAT AFTER DINNER ing, Hayward, the cook, came rushing in and said therewas a bear outside. We went out, Jackson with hiscamera and I with my rifle. We saw the head of thebear above the edge of the shore; it was sniffing the air 542 FARTHEST NORTH in the direction of the hut, while a couple of dogs stoodat a respectful distance and barked. As we approached,it came right up over the edge to us, stopped, showedits teeth, and hissed, then turned round and went slow-ly back down towards the shore. To hinder it enoughfor Jackson to get near and photograph it, I sent abullet into its hind-quarters as it disappeared over theedge. This helped, and a ball in the left shoulder stillmore. Surrounded by a few dogs, it now made a dogs grew bolder, and a couple of shots in themuzzle from Jacksons revolver made the bear quite fu-r
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