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 . -ing smoke, and as a last resort I unfortunately seized ahandful of snow and threw it on to the burning sputtered and crackled, boiling oil flew in all direc-tions, and from the lamp itself rose a sea of flames whichfilled the whole tent and burned everything they camenear. Half-suffocated, we both threw ourselves againstthe closed door, bursting off the buttons, and clashedheadlong into the open air—glad, indeed, to have e
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 . -ing smoke, and as a last resort I unfortunately seized ahandful of snow and threw it on to the burning sputtered and crackled, boiling oil flew in all direc-tions, and from the lamp itself rose a sea of flames whichfilled the whole tent and burned everything they camenear. Half-suffocated, we both threw ourselves againstthe closed door, bursting off the buttons, and clashedheadlong into the open air—glad, indeed, to have escapedwith our lives. With this explosion the lamp went out;but when we came to examine the tent we found anenormous hole burned in the silk wall above the placewhere the frying-pan had stood. One of our sledge-sailshad to pay the penalty for that hole. We crept backinto the tent again, congratulating ourselves, however, onhaving got off so easily, and, after a great deal of trouble,rekindled a fire so that I could fry the last then ate it with sugar, in the best of spirits, andpronounced it the most delicious fare we had ever tasted. co Cn. BY SLEDGE AND KAYAK 299 We had good reason, too, to be in spirits, for our obser-vation for the day made us in 820 north latitude and57 48 east longitude. In spite of westerly and, in ameasure, southwesterly winds, we had come nearly 14south in three days and next to nothing east. A highlysurprising and satisfactory discovery. Outside, the northwind was still blowing, and consequently we were drift-ing south towards more clement regions. Wednesday, June 26th. June 24th was naturallycelebrated with great festivities. In the first place, it wasthat day two years since we started from home; second-ly it was a hundred days since we left the Frani (notreally, it was two days more); and, thirdly, it was Mid-summer day. It was, of course, a holiday, and wepassed it in dreaming of good times to come, in study-ing our charts, our fu
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