Identifier: farthestnorthbei21897nans (find matches)
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
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in besidea little rocky island, which looked just like a great stone*sticking up out of the sea, and there rigged up mast andsail. But the sailing-wind came to nothing, and wewere soon obliged to unrig and take to paddling. Wehad not paddled far when the wind went round to theopposite quarter, the southwest. It increased rapidly,and soon the sea ran high, the sky became overcast inthe south, and it looked as if the weather might becomestormy. We were still several miles from the land onthe other side of the fjord, and we might have manyhours of hard paddling before we gained it. This land,too, looked far from inviting, as it lay there, entirely which Jackson saw and took to be King Oscar Land. In consequenceof his having seen them from only one point (his Cape Fisher), due south,in 8i°, he has placed them 40 too far north, in 820), having overestimatedtheir distance. (See his map in the Geographical Journal, Vol. VII., No. 6,December, 1896, London.) * Called Steinen on the map. vO CO
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LAND AT LAST 383 covered with glacier from the summit right to the shore;only in one place did a little rock emerge. To leewardwe had the margin of the shore-ice, low, and affording noprotection. The waves broke right upon it, and it wouldnot be a good place to seek refuge in, should such aproceeding become necessary; it would be best to getin under land and see how the weather would turn out.We did not like the prospect of once more being en-closed in the drift-ice; we had had enough of that bythis time, so we made for some land which lay a littleway behind us, and looked very inviting. Should mattersturn out badly, a good place for wintering in might befound there. Scarcely had I set foot on land when I saw a bear alittle way up the shore and drew up our kayaks to goand shoot it. In the meantime it came shambling alomrthe shore towards us, so we lay down quietly behind thekayaks and waited. When close up to us it caughtsight of our footprints in the snow, and while it wassniffing at

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