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 . h it could hardly be distinguish-ed, and, moreover, was continually changing form. It soon,however, came out entirely, and was considerably largerand higher than the former, but there was not a blackspeck to be seen on it. So this was what land looked like,now thai we had come to it ! I had imagined it in manyforms, with high peaks and glittering glaciers, but neverlike this. There was nothing kindly about this, but itwas indeed no less
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 . h it could hardly be distinguish-ed, and, moreover, was continually changing form. It soon,however, came out entirely, and was considerably largerand higher than the former, but there was not a blackspeck to be seen on it. So this was what land looked like,now thai we had come to it ! I had imagined it in manyforms, with high peaks and glittering glaciers, but neverlike this. There was nothing kindly about this, but itwas indeed no less welcome; and on the whole we couldnot expect it to be otherwise than snow-covered, with allthe snow which falls here. So then we pitched the tent and had a feast suitedto the occasion : lobscouse made of potatoes (for the lasttime but one; we had saved them long for this occasion),pemmican, dried bears and seals flesh, and bear tongues,chopped up together. After this was a second course,consisting of bread-crumbs fried in bears grease, alsovril-food and butter, and a piece of chocolate to wind up. We thought this land so near that it could not pos- - ~. LAND AT LAST 321 sibly take long to reach it, certainly not longer than tillnext evening. Johansen was even certain that we shoulddo it the same day, but nevertheless thirteen days wereto elapse, occupied in the same monotonous drudgeryover the drift-ice. On July 25th I write: When we stopped in thefog yesterday evening we had a feeling that we musthave come well under land. This morning, when weturned out, the first thing Johansen did when he wentto fetch some water for me to cook with was, of course,to climb up on the nearest hummock and look at theland. There it lay, considerably nearer than before, andhe is quite certain that we shall reach it before also discovered a new land to our west (S. 6o° ) that day; a regular, shield-like, arched outline,similar to the other land; and it was low above thehorizon,
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