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 . us hadthought of such things as oilskins in yesterdays beautifulweather. But we soon saw that with all our pulling andtoiling the boat was making no headway whatever. Apartfrom the wind and the sea we had the current deadagainst us here; all our exertions were of no avail. Wepulled till our finger-tips felt as if they were bursting ;but the most we could manage was to keep the boatwhere it was ; if we slackened an instant it drifted bac
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 . us hadthought of such things as oilskins in yesterdays beautifulweather. But we soon saw that with all our pulling andtoiling the boat was making no headway whatever. Apartfrom the wind and the sea we had the current deadagainst us here; all our exertions were of no avail. Wepulled till our finger-tips felt as if they were bursting ;but the most we could manage was to keep the boatwhere it was ; if we slackened an instant it drifted tried to encourage my comrades: Noiv we madea little way! It was just strength that was needed!But all to no purpose. The wind whistled roundour ears, and the spray dashed over us. It was mad-dening to be so near the ship that it seemed as ifwe could almost reach out to her, and yet feel thatit was impossible to get on any farther. We had tocjo in under the land asrain, where we had the currentwith us, and here we did succeed in makinof a littleprogress. We rowed hard till we were about abreast ofthe ship; then we once more tried to sheer across to. BERNARD NORDAHL (From a photograph taken in December, ISjS) VOYAGE THROUGH THE KARA SEA 179 her, but no sooner did we get into the current againthan it mercilessly drove us back. Beaten again! Andagain we tried the same manoeuvre with the same we saw them lowering a buoy from the ship—ifwe could only reach it we were saved; but we did notreach it. They were not exactly blessings that wepoured on those on board. Why the deuce could theynot bear down to us when they saw the straits we werein; or why, at any rate, could they not ease up the an-chor, and let the ship drift a little in our direction } Theysaw how little was needed to enable us to reach they had their reasons. We would make our last desperate attempt. Wewent at it with a will. Every muscle was strained tothe utmost—it was only the buoy we h
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