. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. s. Your comrades seem to be very glad tosee you again, said Sir George to me later on. Yes,indeed, our gladness was such as one seldom feels inthis life. We had then to tell one another our adv^enturessince we parted up in the far north. Nansen and Ilearnt how they had fared during the last and thelongest Arctic night; it seemed that they had not hadit altogether so comfortable either; but they had allalong grown fonder and fonder of the Frani. She hadcarried them right up to 86° north latitude; no finercraft sailed the se
. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. s. Your comrades seem to be very glad tosee you again, said Sir George to me later on. Yes,indeed, our gladness was such as one seldom feels inthis life. We had then to tell one another our adv^enturessince we parted up in the far north. Nansen and Ilearnt how they had fared during the last and thelongest Arctic night; it seemed that they had not hadit altogether so comfortable either; but they had allalong grown fonder and fonder of the Frani. She hadcarried them right up to 86° north latitude; no finercraft sailed the seas, and she did not disappoint herfriends. She bore her name well, and forced her waywhere it often seemed hopeless; she did not mindif they laid mines, which shattered the heavy ice againsther hull; she merely shook herself from truck to keel,but as for betraying us—no, that she never did! On August 13th, the same day that Nansen and I .] NXIO US IXQ UIRJES J4 o4/ set foot on Norwegian soil, the l-fiDi rorcccl her wayout into op^n water anil shaped her course lor. MEETING OF NANSEN AND ANDREE. Spitzbergen, where one morning they fell in with ship which they hailed and asked after Xaiucnand Johansen. Have they come back? No, was 34^ 11777/ JS THE NORTH the answer. Joy and sorrow wander together, asthe old sajing runs, the truth of whieh our comrades,no doubt, felt then. And probably the thought alsostole in upon them that we were not likely to return,since no one had heard anything of us, who, theythought, had reached home safely long ago. They feltsure, when we left them, that if we did get home, weshould do so the same year. The name of the ship they met was The the Captain they learnt that Mr. Andree, theSwedish explorer, was at Danes Island Avith a balloon,in which he intended to start for the Pole. Sad atheart they steered for Danes Island to ascertain ifthe Swedish expedition there had heard anythingfurther about us. They met Avith a cord
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