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 . There has been an archof light in the sky all day, opposite the moon; so it is alunar rainbow, but without color, so far as I have beenable to see. Friday, December 22d. A bear was shot last saw it first, during his watch. He shot at made off; and he then went down and told aboutit in the cabin. Mogstad and Peter came on deck;Sverdrup was called, too, and came up a little saw the bear on his way towards t
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 . There has been an archof light in the sky all day, opposite the moon; so it is alunar rainbow, but without color, so far as I have beenable to see. Friday, December 22d. A bear was shot last saw it first, during his watch. He shot at made off; and he then went down and told aboutit in the cabin. Mogstad and Peter came on deck;Sverdrup was called, too, and came up a little saw the bear on his way towards the ship again ;but he suddenly caught sight of the gallows with the trapon the ice to the west, and went off there. He lookedwell at the apparatus, then raised himself cautiously onhis hind-legs, and laid his right paw on the cross-beamjust beside the trap, stared for a little, hesitating, atthe delicious morsel, but did not at all like the ugly jaws THE WINTER NIGHT 341 round it. Sverdrup was by this time out at the deck-house, watching in the sparkHng moonshine. His heartwas jumping—he expected every moment to hear thesnap of his trap. But the bear shook his head suspi-
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