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 . for my camera. Inthe meantime, Jackson had arrived with his camera onthe other side ; and when we had taken all the photo-graphs we wanted we shot the bear. It was an un-usually large she-bear. One of the first things we did when we came toMr. Jacksons station was of course to make a closecomparison of our watches with his chronometer; andMr. Armitage was also kind enough to take careful time-observations for me. It now appears that we
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 . for my camera. Inthe meantime, Jackson had arrived with his camera onthe other side ; and when we had taken all the photo-graphs we wanted we shot the bear. It was an un-usually large she-bear. One of the first things we did when we came toMr. Jacksons station was of course to make a closecomparison of our watches with his chronometer; andMr. Armitage was also kind enough to take careful time-observations for me. It now appears that we had notbeen so far out, after all. We had put our watchesabout 26 minutes wrong, making a difference ofabout in longitude. A protracted comparisonundertaken by Mr. Armitage also showred that theescapement of our watches was very nearly what wehad assumed. With the help of this information I wasnow enabled to work out our longitude observationspretty correctly ; and one of the first tasks I here setabout, now that we once more had access to paper,writing and drawing materials, and all that we had long-edfor so much during the winter, was to prepare a. NANSEN AT CAPE FLORA{From photograph by Mr Jackson) THE JOURNEY SOUTHWARD 547 sketch-map of Franz Josef Land, as our observationsled me to conclude that it must actually be. Mr. Jack-son very kindly allowed me to consult the map he hadmade of that part of the land which he had enabled me to dispense with the labor of reckoning 1 * «£** A . A VISITOR (Instantaneous Photograph) out my own observations in these localities. Further-more, I have to thank Mr. Jackson for aid in everypossible way, with navigation-tables, nautical almanac,*scales, and all sorts of drawing material. * We had not any nautical almanac for 1896, and had hitherto usedthe almanac for the previous year. 548 FARTHEST NORTH It is by a comparison of Payers map, Jacksons map,and my own observations that I have made out thesketch - map reproduced o
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