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 . e. Nextday it was no better, and we made fast to a great ice-block which was lying stranded off the Yalmal coast. In the evenins: some of us went on shore. The waterwas so shallow that our boat stuck fast a good way fromthe beach, and we had to wade. It was a perfectly flat,smooth sand-beach, covered by the sea at full tide, andbeyond that a steep sand-bank, 30 to 40 feet, in someplaces probably 60 feet, high. We wandered about a little
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 . e. Nextday it was no better, and we made fast to a great ice-block which was lying stranded off the Yalmal coast. In the evenins: some of us went on shore. The waterwas so shallow that our boat stuck fast a good way fromthe beach, and we had to wade. It was a perfectly flat,smooth sand-beach, covered by the sea at full tide, andbeyond that a steep sand-bank, 30 to 40 feet, in someplaces probably 60 feet, high. We wandered about a little. Flat, bare country onevery hand. Any driftwood we saw was buried in thesand and soaking wet. Not a bird to be seen exceptone or two snipe. We came to a lake, and out of thefoe in front of me I heard the cry of a loon, but saw noliving creature. Our view was blocked by a wall of fogwhichever way we turned. There were plenty of rein- I50 FARTHEST NORTH deer tracks, but of course they were only tliose of theSamoyecles tame reindeer. This is the land of theSamoyedes — and oh but it is desolate and mournful!The only one of us that bagged anything was the. THE PLAIN OF YALMAL ( By Otto Sindiiig, from a Photograph) botanist. Beautiful tiowers smiled to us here and thereamong the sand - mounds — the one message from abrighter world in this land of fogs. We went far in overthe flats, but came only to sheets of water, with low spitsrunning out into them, and ridges between. We oftenheard the cry of loons on the water, but could nevercatch sight of one. All these lakelets were of a remark-able, exactly circular conformation, with steep banks all VOYAGE THROUGH THE KARA SEA 151 * round, just as if each had dug out a hole for itself in thesandy plain. With the oars of our boat and a large tarjoaulin wehad made a sort of tent. We were lucky enough to finda little dry wood, and soon the tent was filled with thefragrant odor of hot coffee. When we had eaten anddrunk and our pipes were li
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