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 . pressure suddenly began. The ice creaked and roaredso along the ships sides close by us that it was notpossible to carry on any connected conversation; wehad to scream, and all agreed with Nordahl when he re-marked that it would be much pleasanter if the pressurewould confine its operations to the bow instead of comingbothering us here aft. Amidst the noise we caught everynow and again from the organ a note or two of Kjerulfsmelody— I c
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 . pressure suddenly began. The ice creaked and roaredso along the ships sides close by us that it was notpossible to carry on any connected conversation; wehad to scream, and all agreed with Nordahl when he re-marked that it would be much pleasanter if the pressurewould confine its operations to the bow instead of comingbothering us here aft. Amidst the noise we caught everynow and again from the organ a note or two of Kjerulfsmelody— I could not sleep for the nightingales hurly-burly outside lasted for about tw^enty minutes,and then all was still. Later in the evening Hansen came down to givenotice of what really was a remarkable appearance ofaurora borealis. The deck was brightly illuminated byit, and reflections of its light played all over the ice. Thewhole sky was ablaze with it, but it was brightest in thesouth ; high up in that direction glowed waving massesof fire. Later still Hansen came again to say that nowit was quite extraordinary. No words can depict the •S S. THE WINTER NIGHT S^S glory that met our eyes. The glowing fire-masses haddivided into glistening, many-colored bands, which werewrithing and twisting across the sky both in the southand north. The rays sparkled with the purest, mostcrystalline rainbow colors, chiefly violet-red or carmineand the clearest green. Most frequently the rays of thearch w^ere red at the ends, and changed higher up intosparkling green, which quite at the top turned darker andwent over into blue or violet before disappearing in theblue of the sky ; or the rays in one and the same archmight change from clear red to clear green, coming andgoing as if driven by a storm. It was an endless phan-tasmagoria of sparkling color, surpassing anything thatone can dream. Sometimes the spectacle reached sucha climax that ones breath was taken away; one felt thatnow s
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