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 . ushed forward outside the awning as faras the forepart of the half-deck, and stood in the midstof the ice, digging away, and I followed to see howmatters stood. I saw more than I cared to see; it washopeless to fight that enemy with a spade. I calledout to Peter to come back, and said, We had better seeto getting everything out on to the ice. Hardly had Ispoken, when it pressed on again with renewed strength,and thundered and crashed, a
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 . ushed forward outside the awning as faras the forepart of the half-deck, and stood in the midstof the ice, digging away, and I followed to see howmatters stood. I saw more than I cared to see; it washopeless to fight that enemy with a spade. I calledout to Peter to come back, and said, We had better seeto getting everything out on to the ice. Hardly had Ispoken, when it pressed on again with renewed strength,and thundered and crashed, and, as Peter said, andlaughed till he shook again, nearly sent both me andthe spade to the deuce. I rushed back to the main-deck ; on the way I met Mogstad, who hurried up,spade in hand, and sent him back. Running forwardunder the tent towards the ladder, I saw that the tent-roof was bent down under the weight of the masses of 56 FARTHEST NORTH ice, which were rushing over it and crashing in over therail and bulwarks to such an extent that I expectedevery moment to see the ice force its way through andblock up the passage. When I got below, I called all. ALL HANDS ON DECK ! hands on deck; but told them when going up not togo out through the door on the port side, but throughthe chart-room and out on the starboard side. In thefirst place, all the bags were to be brought up from thesaloon, and then we were to take those lying on was afraid that if the door on the port side was notkept closed the ice might, if it suddenly burst throughthe bulwarks and tent, rush over the deck and inthrough the door, fill the passage and rush down the THE NEW YEAR, 1S95 57 ladder, and thus imprison us like mice in a trap. True,the passage up from the engine-room had been clearedfor this emergency, but this was a very narrow hole toget through with heavy bags, and no one could tell howlong this hole would keep open when the ice onceattacked us in earnest. I ran up again to set freethe dogs, w
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