. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. ^ great prospect of finding it soon. We should thenhave to face this interminable drift-ice. And if so,what about food? Where was it to come from?Hitherto we had not succeeded in finding much. Ifthings did not improve, our outlook would be badenough. If we were really east of land—which, per-haps, was now more improbable—it could not Ix.^ laroft; and then we should be able to procure food. Thefact that we had drifted to the north was certainly asad business to us. Our marches were now pursued in the followingmanner: Nansen
. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. ^ great prospect of finding it soon. We should thenhave to face this interminable drift-ice. And if so,what about food? Where was it to come from?Hitherto we had not succeeded in finding much. Ifthings did not improve, our outlook would be badenough. If we were really east of land—which, per-haps, was now more improbable—it could not Ix.^ laroft; and then we should be able to procure food. Thefact that we had drifted to the north was certainly asad business to us. Our marches were now pursued in the followingmanner: Nansen went on for some distance in front 200 WITH HANSEN IN THE NORTH to find a way, while I followed behind with both sledges,one behind the other, until I tell in with Nansen onhis way back after having found a passage, when weeach took our sledge. It often took both of us to getthe sledges over the ridges or across the lanes andover the loose ice. ^Y ^^^^^^. OUT RECONNOITRING. Now that the ice was in as bad a state as it possiblycould be, we made but slow progress. All our hopeof reaching land rested on the prospect of meetingwith slack ice with plenty of lanes running in asouth-westerly direction, through which we might pro-ceed towards land in our ka3^aks after having killed A SUPPER ON DOGS BLOOD 201 our last dog, whose flesh we must ourselves be prepareJto eat. We considered whether we should use only onekayak, making this larger with materials taken fromllic other, leaving behind everything which we couldpossibly do without, and then push on with all ourmight. The temperature was keeping just below freez-ing point. It was during this march, while Nansen was awayreconnoitring, that I killed Lillcra^ven, who hadfallen down in front of the sledge. Storraeven keptup until the evening, when he, too, met his sad made our suppers from his blood. Were I tosay that I liked it, I should not be telling the truth ;but it went down, a
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