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 . this overby the skin of our teeth; but just as we were goingto cross the lane again after the other sledges, a largepiece of ice broke under Johansen, and he fell in, wet-ting both legs — a deplorable incident. While the lanewas gradually opening more and more, I went up anddown it to find a way over, but without success. Herewe were, with one man and a sledge on one side, twosledges and a wet man on the other, with an ever-widen-ing la
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 . this overby the skin of our teeth; but just as we were goingto cross the lane again after the other sledges, a largepiece of ice broke under Johansen, and he fell in, wet-ting both legs — a deplorable incident. While the lanewas gradually opening more and more, I went up anddown it to find a way over, but without success. Herewe were, with one man and a sledge on one side, twosledges and a wet man on the other, with an ever-widen-ing lane between. The kayaks could not be launched,as, through the frequent capsizing of the sledges, theyhad got holes in them, and for the time being were use-less. This was a cheerful prospect for the night, I on 156 FARTHEST NORTH one side with the tent, Johansen, probably frozen stiff,on the other. At last, after a long detour, I found away over; and the sledges were conveyed across. Itwas out of the question, however, to attempt to go on,as Johansens nether extremities were a mass of ice andhis overalls so torn that extensive repairs were CHAPTER V A HARD STRUGGLE Tuesday, April 3d. There are many different kindsof difficulty to overcome on this journey, but the worstof all, perhaps, is getting all the trifles done and start-ing off. In spite of my being up by 7 oclock on Mon-day evening to do the cooking, it was nearly two thismorning before we got clear of our load on Johansens sledge had to be relashed, asthe contents of one grip had been eaten up, and wehad to put a sack of bread in its place. Another griphad to be sewed together, as it was dripping the sledge from which the bread-sack had beentaken had to be lashed secure again, and while we hadthe ropes undone it was just as well to get out a supplyof potatoes.* During this operation we discovered thatthere was a hole in the fish - flour sack, which we tiedup, but no sooner
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