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 . andat last I got as far as a trial, but the paint proveduncompromisingly to be perfectly useless. So now Imust mix it with soot, as I had first intended, and addmore oil. I am now occupied in smoking the place outin my attempts to make soot; but all my exertions, whenit comes to collecting it, only result in a little pinch,although the smoke towered in the air, and they mighthave seen it in Spitzbergen. There is a great deal to dobattle
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 . andat last I got as far as a trial, but the paint proveduncompromisingly to be perfectly useless. So now Imust mix it with soot, as I had first intended, and addmore oil. I am now occupied in smoking the place outin my attempts to make soot; but all my exertions, whenit comes to collecting it, only result in a little pinch,although the smoke towered in the air, and they mighthave seen it in Spitzbergen. There is a great deal to dobattle with when one has not a shop next door. Whatwould I not give for a little bucket of oil-paint, only com-mon lampblack! Well, well; we shall find a way out ofthe difficulty eventually, but meanwhile we are growinglike sweeps. On Wednesday evening Haren was killed ; poor BY SLEDGE AND KAYAK 307 beast, he was not good for much latterly, but he hadbeen a first-rate dog, and it was hard, I fancy, for Johan-sen to part with him; he looked sorrowfully at theanimal before it went to the happy hunting-grounds, orwherever it may be draught-dogs go to. Perhaps to. MY LAST DOG, KAIFAS places where there are plains of level ice and no ridgesand lanes. There are only two dogs left now— Suggen and Kaifas1—and we must keep them alive as long aswe can, and have use for them. The day before yesterday, in the evening, we sud-denly discovered a black hillock to the east. We ex-amined it through the glass and it looked absolutely likea black rock emerging from the snows. It also somewhat 308 FARTHEST NORTH exceeded the neighboring hummocks in height. I scru-tinized it carefully from the highest ridge hereabouts, butcould not make it out. I thought it too big to be onlya piled-up hummock mixed with black ice or earthy mat-ter, and I had never seen anything of the kind it is an island seems highly improbable; for al-though we are certainly drifting, it remains in the sameposition in
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