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Farthest North, Vol. II
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896
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Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

by Nansen Fridtjof

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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
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

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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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