. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. man should take exercise on ski for twohours daily. This was carried out in all sorts ofweather, and wx found it agreed splendidly with was busily emplo3ed in making a kayak to. JOUAiNSEN ANU AMUNDSEN RECONNOITRING IN THE NEIGHBOUKHOOD OF THE FR^iM. hold one person. Blessing and Sverdrup had for along time been making some canvas coverings. Wehad dinner at one oclock and supper at six. In theevening we either played cards or searched thetreasures of our library. Amundsen would never touchcards— The}- are the devi
. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. man should take exercise on ski for twohours daily. This was carried out in all sorts ofweather, and wx found it agreed splendidly with was busily emplo3ed in making a kayak to. JOUAiNSEN ANU AMUNDSEN RECONNOITRING IN THE NEIGHBOUKHOOD OF THE FR^iM. hold one person. Blessing and Sverdrup had for along time been making some canvas coverings. Wehad dinner at one oclock and supper at six. In theevening we either played cards or searched thetreasures of our library. Amundsen would never touchcards— The}- are the devils playthings, he used tosay. Jacobsen went early to bed and seldom joinedus at cards. But some of the others went in iVequently 112 117r// najvsex ix the north for gamblin,i>, and they were in the habit of payino-their losses with , which ran up to such big-amounts that it was difficult to keep account of them,and then we wiped them out altogether and beganagain. There was generally a good deal of bettingand bartering of bread going on. Sometimes we hadheated discussions on the state of affairs in Tromsi)or Horton. We now began to build splendid solid snow housesfor the dogs. It was again beginning to be cold, anddarkness was increasing d
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