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 . in believing that Sverdrup had seenin the morning. Thursday, August 20th. Still foggy weather. Newislands were observed on the way back. Sverdrupshigh land did not come to much. It turned out to be anisland, and that a low one. It is wonderful the waythings loom up in the fog. This reminded me of thestory of the pilot at home in the Drobak Channel. Hesuddenly saw land right in front, and gave the order, Full speed astern ! Then they app
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 . in believing that Sverdrup had seenin the morning. Thursday, August 20th. Still foggy weather. Newislands were observed on the way back. Sverdrupshigh land did not come to much. It turned out to be anisland, and that a low one. It is wonderful the waythings loom up in the fog. This reminded me of thestory of the pilot at home in the Drobak Channel. Hesuddenly saw land right in front, and gave the order, Full speed astern ! Then they approached carefullyand found that it was half a baling-can floating in thewater. After passing a great number of new islands wegot into open water off Taimur Island, and steamed instill weather through the sound to the northeast. At5 in the afternoon I saw from the crows-nest thick iceahead, which blocked farther progress. It stretched fromTaimur Island right across to the islands south of it. Onthe ice bearded seals {P/wca barbata) were to be seen inall directions, and we saw one walrus. We approachedthe ice to make fast to it, but the Frain had got into. BERNT BENTZEN [From a pliotograph taken in December, 1S03) VOYAGE THROUGH THE KARA SEA 195 dead-water, and made hardly any way, in spite of theengine going full pressure. It was such slow work thatI thou2:ht I would row ahead to shoot seal. In the mean-time the Fram advanced slowly to the edge of the icewith her machinery still going at full speed. For the moment we had simply to give up all thoughtsof getting on. It was most likely, indeed, that only a fewmiles of solid ice lay between us and the probably openTaimur Sea; but to break through this ice was an impos-sibility. It was too thick, and there were no openings init. Nordenskiold had steamed through here earlier inthe year (August 18, 1878) without the slightest hinder-ance,* and here, perhaps, our hopes, for this year at anyrate, were to be wrecked. It was not possible
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