. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. land and try again; but the Ibg prevented us of the dogs unfortunately died. Several of themhad been ill. They had not fared well on the cold, wetdeck, exposed to all kinds of weather. If they could onlyagree with one another, we should have put them underthe forecastle; but they fought and quarrelled together,and did not seem to know what was best for them—justlike a good many human beings. Some of us went outhunting, and returned on board with a few seals. On the 30th of August we anchored off the TaimurIsland
. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. land and try again; but the Ibg prevented us of the dogs unfortunately died. Several of themhad been ill. They had not fared well on the cold, wetdeck, exposed to all kinds of weather. If they could onlyagree with one another, we should have put them underthe forecastle; but they fought and quarrelled together,and did not seem to know what was best for them—justlike a good many human beings. Some of us went outhunting, and returned on board with a few seals. On the 30th of August we anchored off the TaimurIsland in an open channel. Two dogs had now diedand been dissected by Blessing, who declared that theymust have died from eating bears fat, which in- someway or another had poisoned them. 28 OFF THE TAIMUR ) 29 Niinsen, Sverdrup, and I went ashore with two :safter a she-bear with its yount; one. We followed upthe track for a couple of liours, when we found theyhad gone into the sea. We remained off the TaimurIsland till the 2nd of September. During that time we. Si ul l-HANSi:.N .XNU . SAIL. cleaned the boilers and looked after the engine, ourguns, and the dogs. We made muzzles for all of themwith plaited rope, so that they might be let loose andhave a better time. It turned out, however, that themuzzles were not of much nights were now getting colder, and we com- 30 11777/ XAASEN IN THE NORTH mcnccd u.^ing reindeer skins lor bed covering. Westeamed for the south-western end of the Taimur Ishindto try to get through the sound between the island andthe mainland. On the 3rd of September we anchoredin two different places. Nordenskiolds chart is not socomplete as we had believed it to be. We could notquite make out our whereabouts from it. Nansen, Juell,Nordahl, and I set out on a reconnoitring expedition onthe 4th and 5th of September. We rowed for seventeenhours, and had no other food than biscuits and a littledried reindeer meat; we had forgot
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