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 . st it might. There were others than we whowaited impatiently for the ship. Four members of theEnglish expedition were also to go home in her, aftertwo years absence. Monday, July 20th. We begin to get more andmore impatient for the arrival of the vessel, but the iceis still tolerably thick here. Jackson says that she shouldhave been here by the middle of June, and thinks thatthere has several times been sufficiently open water forher to
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 . st it might. There were others than we whowaited impatiently for the ship. Four members of theEnglish expedition were also to go home in her, aftertwo years absence. Monday, July 20th. We begin to get more andmore impatient for the arrival of the vessel, but the iceis still tolerably thick here. Jackson says that she shouldhave been here by the middle of June, and thinks thatthere has several times been sufficiently open water forher to have got through ; but I have my doubts aboutthat. Though only a little scattered ice is to be seenhere, even from a height of 500 feet, that does not meanmuch; there may be more ice farther south blocking THE JOURNEY SOUTHWARD 569 the way. One day Jackson and the doctor were on thetop of the mountain here, and from that point, too, thereseemed to be very little ice in the south ; but I am notconvinced any the more. I think all experience goes toshow that there must still be plenty of ice in the sea tothe south. What Mr. Jackson says about the Windward. MR. JACKSON AT ELMWOOO having been able to get through as early as July lastyear without needing to touch the ice, adding that then,too, there was no ice to be seen from here, I do not findat all conclusive. During the last few days more icehas ao-ain come drifting in from the east. I lon^ toget away. What if we are shut in here all the winter? 5/0 FARTHEST NORTH Then we shall have done wrong in stopping here. Whydid we not continue our journey to Spitzbergen ? have been at home by now. The eye wandersout over the boundless white plain. Not one darkstreak of water — ice, ice! — shut out from the world,from the throbbing life, the life that we believed to beso near. Low clown on the horizon there is a strip of blue-gray cloud. Par, far away beyond the ice there is openwater, and perhaps there, rocked on long swelli
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