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 . ction, and even the open sea, whence we had come,disappeared; all our hopes of getting home that yearsank at one blow. After a while we realized that therewas nothing to be done but to drag our loads fartherin on to the shore-ice and camp. To try and haul thecanoes farther over this pack, which was worse than anyice we had come across since we began our voyage,we thought was useless. We should get very littledistance in the day, and it
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 . ction, and even the open sea, whence we had come,disappeared; all our hopes of getting home that yearsank at one blow. After a while we realized that therewas nothing to be done but to drag our loads fartherin on to the shore-ice and camp. To try and haul thecanoes farther over this pack, which was worse than anyice we had come across since we began our voyage,we thought was useless. We should get very littledistance in the day, and it might cost us clear with thekayaks on the short sledges, among all these ridgesand hummocks; and so we lay there day and nightwaiting for the wind to go down or to change. But itblew from the same quarter the whole time, and matterswere not improved by a heavy fall of snow which madethe ice absolutely impracticable. Our situation was not an attractive one ; in front of usmassive broken sea-ice close by land, and the gods aloneknow if it will open again this year ; a good way behindus land* which looked anything but inviting to spend * Hellands LAND AT LAST 369 the winter on ; around us impassable ice, and our prov-ender very much on the decline. The south coast ofthe country and Eira Harbor now appeared to our im-agination a veritable land of Canaan, and we thoughtthat if only we were there all our troubles would be hoped to be able to find Leigh Smiths hut there, or,at any rate, some remains of it, so that we should havesomething to live in; and we also hoped that where thereno doubt was much open water it would be easy to findgame. We regretted not having shot some seals whilethey were numerous ; on the night when we left our lastcamping-place there were plenty of them about. AsJohansen was standing on the edge of the ice doingsomething to his kayak, a seal came up just in front ofhim. He thought it was of a kind he had not seen be-fore, and shouted to me.
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