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 . 00vO. A HARD STRUGGLE 161 room floor, I know not. The host laughed in an amusedway, and—I woke up and found myself shivering in asleeping-bag on the drift-ice in the far north. Oh, howmiserable I felt! We got up, packed our things silentlytogether, and started off. Not until 4 oclock thatafternoon did we stop, but everything was dull andcheerless, and it was long before I got over my dis-appointment. What would I not have given for that
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 . 00vO. A HARD STRUGGLE 161 room floor, I know not. The host laughed in an amusedway, and—I woke up and found myself shivering in asleeping-bag on the drift-ice in the far north. Oh, howmiserable I felt! We got up, packed our things silentlytogether, and started off. Not until 4 oclock thatafternoon did we stop, but everything was dull andcheerless, and it was long before I got over my dis-appointment. What would I not have given for thatdinner, or for one hour in the room, cold as it was! The ridges and the lanes which had frozen togetheragain, with rubble on either side, became worse andworse. Making ones way through these new ridges isdesperate work. One cannot use snow-shoes, as there istoo little snow between the piled-up blocks of ice, and onemust wade along without them. It is also impossibleto see anything in this thick weather—everything iswhite—irregularities and holes; and the spaces betweenthe blocks are covered with a thin, deceptive layer ofsnow, which lets one crashing th
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