Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893 . (one of theGreenland party), and I. The pipes were in full blast andthe talk in full swing. Jacobsen was a capital narrator, when you could workhim up to the point, which was not every day. He had seena great deal of the world between the South Pole and theNorth, and had an unusually rich stock of experiences todraw upon. Whether he was recounting his adventuresamong the Maories of New Zealand or among the ice floes ofNova Zembla, he always managed to put an extraordinary 364 LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NAN SEN amount of life into the situation, and to transport his hearersin
Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893 . (one of theGreenland party), and I. The pipes were in full blast andthe talk in full swing. Jacobsen was a capital narrator, when you could workhim up to the point, which was not every day. He had seena great deal of the world between the South Pole and theNorth, and had an unusually rich stock of experiences todraw upon. Whether he was recounting his adventuresamong the Maories of New Zealand or among the ice floes ofNova Zembla, he always managed to put an extraordinary 364 LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NAN SEN amount of life into the situation, and to transport his hearersinto the thick of it. This evening he was teUing the storyof his polar-bear hunts, with one of the Bourbon princes, onSpitzbergen, and he graphically depicted for us all the man-ners and customs of the polar bear, its spirit of inquiry andits clumsy cunning. I have since read somewhere that atparting the prince presented him with his own gold watch ;of that he said nothino- and I saw nothing of it while I wason board the
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