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 . g else to be done butto lash the two kayaks together side by side in our usualmanner, stiffen them out with snow-shoes under thestraps, and place the sledges athwart them, one beforeand one behind. It was sad to think we could not take our two lastdogs with us, but we should probably have no furtheruse for them, and it would not have done to take themwith us on the decks of our kayaks. We were sorry topart with them; we had become very
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 . g else to be done butto lash the two kayaks together side by side in our usualmanner, stiffen them out with snow-shoes under thestraps, and place the sledges athwart them, one beforeand one behind. It was sad to think we could not take our two lastdogs with us, but we should probably have no furtheruse for them, and it would not have done to take themwith us on the decks of our kayaks. We were sorry topart with them; we had become very fond of these twosurvivors. Faithful and enduring, they had followed usthe whole journey through ; and, now that better timeshad come, they must say farewell to life. Destroy themin the same way as the others we could not; we sacri-ficed a cartridge on each of them. I shot Johansens,and he shot mine. So then we were ready to set off. It was a realpleasure to let the kayaks dance over the water andhear the little waves plashing against the sides. Fortwo years we had not seen such a surface of water be-fore us. We had not gone far before we found that the. On 00vO 7 v
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