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 down again, preferring, ifpossible, simply to sit down and slide. After a whilethis passed off a little, and I became more accustomed tothe heights again. I also became less short-winded, andat last I could climb almost like a normal human the meantime the days wore on, and still we sawnothing of the Windward, fohansen and I began toget a little impatient. We discussed the possibility thatthe ship might not make its way thr
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 down again, preferring, ifpossible, simply to sit down and slide. After a whilethis passed off a little, and I became more accustomed tothe heights again. I also became less short-winded, andat last I could climb almost like a normal human the meantime the days wore on, and still we sawnothing of the Windward, fohansen and I began toget a little impatient. We discussed the possibility thatthe ship might not make its way through the ice, andthat we should have to winter here, after all. Thisidea was not particularly attractive to us—to be so nearhome and yet not to reach home. We regretted thatwe had not at once pushed on for Spitzbergen; per-haps we should by this time have reached the much-talked-of sloop. When we came to think of it, why onearth had we stopped here ? That was easily people were so kind and hospitable to us thatit would have been more than Spartan had we beenable to resist their amiability. And then we had gone THE JOURNEY SOUTHWARD 567. BASALTIC CLIFFS through a good deal before we arrived, and here was awarm, cozy nest, where we had nothing to do but to sitdown and wait. Waiting, however, is not always theeasiest of work, and we began seriously to think of set-ting off again for Spitsbergen. But had we not delayed 568 FARTHEST NORTH too long? It was the middle of July, and although weshould probably get on quickly enough, we might meetwith unexpected impediments, and it might take us amonth or more to reach the waters in which we couldhope to find a ship. That would bring us to the middleor perhaps to the end of August, by which time thesloops had begun to make for home. If we did notcome across one at once, when we got into Septemberit would be difficult enough to get hold of one, and thenwe should perhaps be in for another winter of it, afterall. No, it was
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