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 . * lit- # > i. WE PREPARE FOR THE SLEDGE EXPEDITION II tertain any doubt that the expedition would solve theproblem it had set before it; everything had up to thepresent gone according to our anticipations, and it wasto be hoped and expected that this would continue tobe the case for the remainder of the voyage. We had,therefore, every prospect of accomplishing the principalpart of our task; but then the question arose whethermore cou
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 . * lit- # > i. WE PREPARE FOR THE SLEDGE EXPEDITION II tertain any doubt that the expedition would solve theproblem it had set before it; everything had up to thepresent gone according to our anticipations, and it wasto be hoped and expected that this would continue tobe the case for the remainder of the voyage. We had,therefore, every prospect of accomplishing the principalpart of our task; but then the question arose whethermore could not be accomplished, and thereupon I pro-ceeded to explain, in much the same terms as I haveused above, how this might be effected by an expeditionnorthward. I had the impression that every one was deeply in-terested in the projected expedition, and that they allthought it most desirable that it should be greatest objection, I think, they would have urgedagainst it, had they been asked, would have been thatthey themselves could not take part in it. I impressedon them, however, that while it was unquestionably afine thing to push on as far as possible to
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