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 . to-day shows 80 i north latitude, so that we havecome a few minutes north since last Friday, and that inspite of constant northerly winds since Monday. Thereis something very singular about this. Is it, as I havethought all along from the appearance of the clouds andthe haziness of the air, that there has been south wind inthe south, preventing the drift of the ice that way, orhave we at last come under the influence of a current .f*Tha
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 . to-day shows 80 i north latitude, so that we havecome a few minutes north since last Friday, and that inspite of constant northerly winds since Monday. Thereis something very singular about this. Is it, as I havethought all along from the appearance of the clouds andthe haziness of the air, that there has been south wind inthe south, preventing the drift of the ice that way, orhave we at last come under the influence of a current .f*That shove we got to the south lately in the face of south-erly winds was a remarkable thing, and so is our remainingwhere we are now in spite of the northerly ones. It wouldseem that new powers of some kind must be at work. 394 FAR THE S 2 NORTH To-day another noteworthy thing happened, whichwas that about midday we saw the sun, or, to be morecorrect, an image of the sun, for it was only a peculiar impression was produced by the sight ofthat glowing fire lit just above the outermost edge ofthe ice. According to the enthusiastic descriptions given. FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE SUN by many Arctic travellers of the first appearance of thisgod of life after the long winter night, the impres-sion ought to be one of jubilant excitement; but itwas not so in my case. We had not expected to seeit for some days yet, so that my feeling was rather oneof pain, of disappointment, that we must have drifted THE WINTER NIGHT 395 farther south than we thought. So it was with pleasureI soon discovered that it could not be the sun miraore was at first like a flattened-out orlowinor redstreak of fire on the horizon; later there were twostreaks, the one above the other, with a dark spacebetween; and from the main-top I could see four, oreven five, such horizontal lines directly over one another,and all of equal length; as if one could only imaginea square dull-red sun with horizontal da
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