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 . uld not see. He putout his gun, pointing the barrel at the upper edge of theopening; he thought the shot must go right into thebears breast, and so he fired. I heard a dull growland the crunching of the snow under heavy footsteps,which went up towards the talus. Johansen loadedagain, and put his head out at the opening. He saidhe saw it going up there, and that it didnt seem up tomuch, and forthwith he rushed after it. I, meanwhile,was
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 . uld not see. He putout his gun, pointing the barrel at the upper edge of theopening; he thought the shot must go right into thebears breast, and so he fired. I heard a dull growland the crunching of the snow under heavy footsteps,which went up towards the talus. Johansen loadedagain, and put his head out at the opening. He saidhe saw it going up there, and that it didnt seem up tomuch, and forthwith he rushed after it. I, meanwhile,was lying head foremost in the bag, hunting for a sockwhich I could not find. At last, after a long search, Ifound it—on the floor, of course. Then I, too, was ready; 468 FARTHEST XORTH and well equipped with gun, cartridges, knife, and file(to sharpen the seal-knife), I followed. I had my windtrousers on, too; they had been hanging unused allthrough the winters cold, for want of thread to mendthem with, but now, when the temperature was only — 2° Fahr.), they of course had to come out. I followedthe tracks; they went westward and northward along. JOHANSEN FIRED THROUGH THE OPENING the shore. After a little while I at last met Johansen,who said that the bear lay farther on ; he had at last gotup to it, and finished it with a shot in the back. Whilelit- returned to fetch the sledges I went on to beginskinning. It was not to be done quite so quickly, how- THE NEW YEAR, 1896 469 ever. As I approached the place where I thought it mustbe lying, I caught sight of the dead bear far ahead,trotting pretty briskly along the shore. Now and thenit stopped to look round at me. I ran out on to the ice,to get outside it, if possible, and drive it back, so thatwe should not have so far to drag it. When I had kepton at this for some time, and was about on a level withit, it began clambering up the glacier and under someragged rock. I had not reckoned on a dead bearbeing able to do this,
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