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Title: 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
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930 Sverdrup, Otto Neumann, 1854-1930
Subjects: "Fram" Expedition. 1893-1896)
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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d vegetables as possible;should troublous times come then, I should consider itadvisable to have a supply of these articles ready on theice. Should the Fram while drifting be carried far to the north of Spitzbergen, and get over into the currentunder the east coast of Greenland, many possibilities maybe imagined which it is not easy to form an opinion onnow; but should you be obliged to abandon the Framand make for the land, it would be best for you to erectbeacons there, as stated above (with particulars as towhither you are going, etc.), as search might possiblybe made there for the expedition. Whether in that caseyou ought to make for Iceland (which is the nearestland, and where you should be able to get in the earlypart of summer, if following the edge of the ice), orfor the Danish colonies west of Cape Farewell, youwill be best able to judge on considering all the circum-stances. As regards what you ought to take with you in theevent of abandoning the Fram, besides the necessary A
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WE MAKE A START 97 provisions, I may mention weapons, ammunition, andequipment, all scientific and other journals and obser-vations, all scientific collections that are not too heavy, or,if too heavy, small samples thereof; photographs, pref-erably the original plates (or films); or should theseprove too heavy, then prints taken from them; also theAderman aerometer, with which most of the observa-tions on the specific gravity of sea-water are taken ; aswell as, of course, all journals and memoranda whichare of any interest. I leave behind some diaries andletters, which I would request you to take special care ofand deliver to Eva if I should not return home, or if,contrary to all expectation, you should return home be-fore us. Hansen and Blessing will, as you know, attend to the various scientific expeditions and to the collectingof specimens. You yourself will attend to the sound-ings, and see that they are taken as frequently as possibleand as the condition of the line permits. I sho

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