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 . iew of the sort sincewe had left Vardo, and, after the monotonous low landwe had been coasting along for months, it was refresh-ing to see such mountains again. They ended with aprecipitous descent to the east, and eastward from thatextended a perfectly flat plain. In the course of theday we quite lost sight of land, and strangely enoughdid not see it again ; nor did we see the Islands of and St. Paul, though, according to the
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 . iew of the sort sincewe had left Vardo, and, after the monotonous low landwe had been coasting along for months, it was refresh-ing to see such mountains again. They ended with aprecipitous descent to the east, and eastward from thatextended a perfectly flat plain. In the course of theday we quite lost sight of land, and strangely enoughdid not see it again ; nor did we see the Islands of and St. Paul, though, according to the maps, ourcourse lay close past them. Thursday, September 12th. Henriksen awoke methis morning at 6 with the information that therewere several walruses lying on a floe quite close to us. By jove ! Up I jumped and had my clothes on in atrice. It was a lovely morning—fine, still weather; thewalruses guffaw sounded over to us along the clearice surface. They were lying crowded together on afloe a little to landward from us, blue mountains glitter-ing behind them in the sun. At last the harpoons weresharpened, guns and cartridges ready, and Henriksen, ^ o. VOYAGE THROUGH THE KARA SEA 221 Juell, and I set off. There seemed to be a slight breezefrom the south, so we rowed to the north side of the floe,to get to leeward of the animals. From time to timetheir sentry raised his head, but apparently did not seeus. We advanced slowly, and soon we were so near thatwe had to row very cautiously. Juell kept us going, whileHenriksen was ready in the bow with a harpoon, and Ibehind him with a gun. The moment the sentry raisedhis head the oars stopped, and we stood motionless;when he sunk it again, a few more strokes brought usnearer. Body to body they lay close-packed on a small floe,old and young ones mixed. Enormous masses of fleshthey were! Now and again one of the ladies fannedherself by moving one of her flappers backward andforward over her body; then she lay quiet again on herback or
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