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 . The heap was quitepossibly only one of Natures freaks — she is often ca-pricious. What a constant alternation of light and shadowthere is in this Arctic land. When I went up to thecrows-nest next morning (September 9th) I saw thatthe ice to the north had loosened from the land, andI could trace a channel which might lead us north-ward into open water. I at once gave the order toget up steam. The barometer was certainly low —lower than w
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 . The heap was quitepossibly only one of Natures freaks — she is often ca-pricious. What a constant alternation of light and shadowthere is in this Arctic land. When I went up to thecrows-nest next morning (September 9th) I saw thatthe ice to the north had loosened from the land, andI could trace a channel which might lead us north-ward into open water. I at once gave the order toget up steam. The barometer was certainly low —lower than we had ever had it yet; it was down to ]2i2>mni.—the wind was blowing in heavy squalls off theland, and in on the plains the gusts were whirling upclouds of sand and dust. Sverdrup thought it would be safer to stay where wewere; but it would be too annoying to miss this splendidopportunity; and the sunshine was so beautiful, and thesky so smiling and reassuring. I gave orders to set sail,and soon we were pushing on northward through the ice,under steam, and with every stitch of canvas that wecould crowd on. Cape Chelyuskin must be vanquished \. ANTON AMUNDSEN {Fi-ojii a fJwtograph taken in December, 1S03) VOYAGE THROUGH THE KARA SEA 215 Never had the Fram gone so fast; she made morethan 8 knots by the log; it seemed as though she knewhow much depended on her getting on. Soon we werethrough the ice, and had open water along the land asfar as the eye could reach. We passed point after point,discovering new fjords and islands on the way, and soonI thought that I caught a glimpse through the largetelescope of some mountains far away north; they mustbe in the neighborhood of Cape Chelyuskin itself. The land along which we to-day coasted to the north-ward was quite low, some of it like what I had seen onshore the previous day. At some distance from the lowcoast, fairly high mountains or mountain chains were tobe seen. Some of them seemed to consist of horizontalsedimentary sc
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