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Farthest North
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Fram” 1893–96 and of a Fifteen Months’ Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen
By Dr. Fridtjof Nansen
With an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram
With an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram
About 120 Full-page and Numerous Text Illustrations 16 Colored Plates in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen’s Own Sketches, Etched Portrait, and Photogravures
In two volumes
Vol. II.
New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
In two volumes
Vol. II.
New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
Sailing Kayaks
Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Contents of Vol. II.
- Chap. Page
- I. We Prepare for the Sledge Expedition 1
- II. The New Year, 1895 41
- III. We Make a Start 90
- IV. We Say Good-bye to the “Fram” 132
- V. A Hard Struggle 157
- VI. By Sledge and Kayak 236
- VII. Land at Last 308
- VIII. The New Year, 1896 454
- IX. The Journey Southward
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487
Appendix
- Report of Captain Otto Sverdrup on the Drifting of the “Fram” from March 14, 1895.
- I. March 15 to June 22, 1895 601
- II. June 22 to August 15, 1895 633
- III. August 15 to January 1, 1896 648
- IV. January 1 to May 17, 1896 668
- V. The Third Summer 683
- Conclusion 707
- Index 715
Illustrations in Vol. II.
- Page
- Sailing Kayaks (Photogravure) Frontispiece
- Hjalmar Johansen Facing p. 2
- At the Supper-table (February 14, 1895) 9
- Scott-Hansen’s Observatory 17
- Musical Entertainment in the Saloon 35
- Captain Sverdrup in His Cabin 49
- The “Fram” in the Ice (Photogravure) Facing p. 54
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@34120@[email protected]#p056" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">“All Hands on Deck!” 56 “A Most Remarkable Moon” 65 The “Fram” After an Ice-pressure (January 10, 1895) 67 The Winter Night (January 14, 1895) 71 A Whist-party in the Saloon (February 15, 1895) 79 Upper End of the Supper-table (February 15, 1895) 83 Stopping a Dog-fight 85 Lower End of Supper-table 87 The Crew of the “Fram” after Their Second Winter (About February 24, 1895) 93 The “Fram” in the Ice (1895) 103 Sunday Afternoon on Board 107 The Cooking Apparatus 122 The Start from the “Fram” (March 14, 1895) 133 Our Last Camp before Parting from Our Comrades 137 A Night Camp on the Journey North 154 Tailpiece 156 Northward through the Drift-snow (April, 1895) 159
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@34120@[email protected]#p162" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Nothing but Ice, Ice to the Horizon (April 7, 1895) Facing p. 162 Over Difficult Pressure-mounds (April, 1895) 165 “I Went on Ahead on Snow-shoes” 169 “On Tolerably Good Ground” 171 Our Northernmost Camp, 86° 13.6′ N. Lat. (April 8, 1895) 173 “Baro,” the Runaway Facing p. 178 Rest (April, 1895) 181 Johansen Carving our Names in a Stock of Driftwood 185 Peculiar Ice Stratification (April, 1895) 187 “We Made Fairly Good Progress” 203 Repairing the Kayaks 240 A Coign of Vantage. Packed Ice 251 “A Curdled Sea” 257 Channels in the Ice in Summer (june, 1895) 263 “Suggen.” “Kaifas” 277 Crossing a Crack in the Ice 287 Johansen Sitting in the Sleeping-bag in the Hut
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class="tocPagenum">293 Channels in the Ice (June 24, 1895) 297 My Last Dog, “Kaifas” 307 “Incredibly Slow Progress” 323 “This Inconceivable Toil” 327 “You Must Look Sharp!” 330 We Reach the Open Water (August 6, 1895) 337 Iceberg on the North Side of Franz Josef Land 351 A Paddle along the Edge of the Ice 359 Glazier—Franz Josef Land 361 A Camp on the Coast of Franz Josef Land 367 Crack in the Ice 375 “Sailing along the Coast” 378 A Fight against the Storm to Reach Land (August 29, 1895) 381 Walruses 387 We Build Our First Hut 390 Walruses 397 “In the Water Lay Walruses” 409
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@34120@[email protected]#p417" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">“I Photographed Him and the Walrus” 417 “It Gazed Wickedly at Us” 419 At Our Winter Quarters 431 An Illegible Page from Diary 437 Our Winter Hut (December 31, 1895) 451 “Life in Our Hut” 456 “Johansen Fired through the Opening” 468 “Our Winter Lair” 489 Southward (May, 1896) 491 Over the Ice towards the Island (May, 24, 1896) 495 A Sail with Sledges. South of Cape Richthofen (June 6, 1896) 507 “I Managed to Swing One Leg Up” 515 “It Tried to Upset Me” 520 Our Last Camp 523 Franz Josef Land 528 Meeting of Jackson and Nansen 531 Mr. Jackson’s Station at Cape Flora 535
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Nansen at Cape Flora 537 A Chat after Dinner 541 The Wounded Bear 543 Johansen at Cape Flora 545 A Visitor 547 Jackson on Cape Flora 551 Basaltic Rock 554 A Strange Rock of Basalt 559 Plant Fossils 561 Kittiwake on Her Nest 565 Basaltic Cliffs 567 Mr. Jackson at Elmwood 569 Johansen in Jackson’s Saloon 571 Cape Flora. Farewell to Franz Josef Land 577 “We Stood Looking over the Sea” 580 Arrival at Hammerfest 587 The “Windward” Leaving Tromsö 591 Tailpiece 597
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Original Map of Kaiser Franz Josef Land 599
Appendix
- Digging Out the “Fram” (March, 1895) 603
- The “Fram” when Dug Out of the Pressure-mound at the End of March, 1895 607
- Fitting the Hand-sledges with Runners (July, 1895) 611
- View over the Drift-ice. Depot in Foreground 615
- Pressure-mound near the “Fram” (April, 1895) 621
- Ice-smithy (May, 1895) 625
- The “Fram” Before Her Release 627
- The Procession (May 17, 1895) 629
- Tailpiece 632
- Channel Astern of the “Fram” (June, 1895) 635
- Movable Meteorological Station on the Ice (July, 1895) 639
- Observation with Sextant and Artificial Horizon (July, 1895) 645
- Cleaning the Accumulators before Stowing Away (July, 1895) 653
- Workshop on Deck (July, 1895) 659
- Pettersen and Blessing on a Hummock (April, 1895) 673
- Lars Pettersen on Snow-shoes 679
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@34120@[email protected]#p682" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Tailpiece 682 Flaying Walruses 697 Tailpiece 706 The Members of the Expedition after Their Return to Christiania 709
Colored Plates in Vol. II.
- IX. Light Phenomena in the Polar Night (November 22, 1893) Facing p. 96
- X. The Polar Night (November 24, 1893) ” 176
- XI. Moon-ring with Mock Moons, and a Suggestion of Horizontal Axes (November 24, 1893) ” 248
- XII. Moonlight Phenomena at the Beginning of the Polar Night (November, 1893) ” 320
- XIII. Streamers of Aurora Borealis (November 28, 1893) ” 400
- XIV. Ice near the “Fram” (July 4, 1894) ” 472
- XV. Aurora Borealis (October 18, 1894) ” 584
- XVI. An Auroral Crown (December, 1894) ” 664