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 . wind made suchonslaughts on the tent that we found it advisable totake it down, to avoid having it torn to pieces. Wecould now sleep securely in our bags beneath the pros-trate tent, and let the wind rage above us. After a timeI awoke, and noticed that the wind had subsided so muchthat we could once more raise our tent, and I crept outto look at the weather. I was less pleasantly surprised ondiscovering that we were already far out to s
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 . wind made suchonslaughts on the tent that we found it advisable totake it down, to avoid having it torn to pieces. Wecould now sleep securely in our bags beneath the pros-trate tent, and let the wind rage above us. After a timeI awoke, and noticed that the wind had subsided so muchthat we could once more raise our tent, and I crept outto look at the weather. I was less pleasantly surprised ondiscovering that we were already far out to sea; we musthave drifted eight or ten miles from land, and between itand us lay open sea. The land now lay quite low, far offon the horizon. In the meantime, however, the weatherhad considerably improved, and we once more set outalong the edge of the ice to try to get our kayakslaunched. But it was no easy matter. It was still blow-ing hard, and the sea ran hiq;h. In addition to this, therewere a number of loose fioes beyond, and these were inconstant motion, so that we had to be on the alert to pre-vent the kayaks from being crushed between them. After. LAND AT LAST 377 some futile attempts we at length got afloat, but only todiscover that the wind and the waves were too strono-;we should scarcely be able to make any progress againstthem. Our only resource, therefore, was to sail, if thiswere practicable. We went alongside an ice promontory,lashed the kayaks together, raised the mast, and again putto sea. We soon had our single sail hoisted, and to ourunspeakable satisfaction we now found that we sot alono-capitally. At last we should be able to bid farewell tothe ice, where wTe had been compelled to abandon ourhope of reaching home that year. We now continuedsailing hour after hour, and made good progress; butthen the wind dropped too much for our single sail, andI ventured to set the whole double sail. Hardly had wedone so, when the wind again sprang up, and we dashedfoaming
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