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 . so as not to get the linenipped and lose everything. It is a pity, for there areinteresting hauls to be made. One sees phosphores-cence! in the water here whenever there is the smallestopening in the ice. There is by no means such a scarc-ity of animal life as one might expect. Friday, October 13th. Now we are in the very midstof what the prophets would have had us dread so ice is pressing and packing round us with a noiselike
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 . so as not to get the linenipped and lose everything. It is a pity, for there areinteresting hauls to be made. One sees phosphores-cence! in the water here whenever there is the smallestopening in the ice. There is by no means such a scarc-ity of animal life as one might expect. Friday, October 13th. Now we are in the very midstof what the prophets would have had us dread so ice is pressing and packing round us with a noiselike thunder. It is piling itself up into long walls, andheaps high enough to reach a good way up the Framsrigging; in fact, it is trying its very utmost to grind theFram into powder. But here we sit quite tranquil, not * This silk bag-net is intended to be dragged after a boat or ship tocatch the living animals or plant organisms at various depths. We usedthem constantly during our drifting, sinking them to different depthsunder the ice, and they often brought up rich spoils. tThis phosphorescence is principally due to small luminous Crus-tacea iCopcpoda).. WE LAY IN OPEN WATER {Frotn a photograph] THE WINTER NIGHT 277 even going up to look at all the hurly-burly, but justchatting and laughing as usual. Last night there wastremendous pressure round our old dog-floe. The icehad towered up higher than the highest point of thefloe and hustled down upon it. It had quite spoiled awell, where we till now had found good drinking-water,filling it with brine. Furthermore, it had cast itselfover our stern ice - anchor and part of the steel cablewhich held it, burying them so effectually that we hadafterwards to cut the cable. Then it covered our planksand sled2es, which stood on the ice. Before long thedogs were in danger, and the watch had to turn out allhands to save them. At last the floe split in two. Thismorning the ice was one scene of melancholy confusion,gleaming in the most glorious
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