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 . r surprise was notsmall when we saw that we were making way, and evenat a tolerable rate. Soon we were out of the sound or* Knipa (nipper) as we christened it, and could beat outto sea with steam and sail. Of course, we had, as usual,contrary wind and thick weather. There is ample spacebetween every little bit of sunshine in these quarters. Next day we kept on beating northward between theedge of the ice and the land. The open channel w
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 . r surprise was notsmall when we saw that we were making way, and evenat a tolerable rate. Soon we were out of the sound or* Knipa (nipper) as we christened it, and could beat outto sea with steam and sail. Of course, we had, as usual,contrary wind and thick weather. There is ample spacebetween every little bit of sunshine in these quarters. Next day we kept on beating northward between theedge of the ice and the land. The open channel wasbroad to begin with, but farther north it became sonarrow that we could often see the coast when we putabout at the edge of the ice. At this time we passedmany unknown islands and groups of islands. Therewas evidently plenty of occupation here, for any onewho could spare the time, in making a chart of thecoast. Our voyage had another aim, and all that wecould do was to make a few occasional measurements ofthe same nature as Nordenskiold had made before us. On August 25th I noted in my diary that in theafternoon we had seven islands in sight. They were. IVAR MOGSTAD (From a photograpli taken in ISJU) VOYAGE THROUGH THE KARA SEA 187 higher than those we had seen before, and consisted ofprecipitous hills. There were also small glaciers orsnow-fields, and the rock formation showed clear tracesof erosion by ice or snow, this being especially the caseon the largest island, where there were even small valleys,partially filled with snow. This is the record of August 26th : Many new isl-ands in various directions. There are here, the diarycontinues, any number of unknown islands, so manythat ones head gets confused in trying to keep accountof them all. In the morning we passed a very rockyone, and beyond it I saw two others. After them landor islands farther to the north and still more to the north-east. We had to go out of our course in the afternoon,because we dared not pass between
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