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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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the engine-room was quite water-tight. It still leaked alittle, however, in the main hold ; but soon the leak ceased herealso, the water having frozen in the ships side. For the rest, weemployed our time in all sorts of work about the ship, cutting upand removing ice in the hold, cleaning, putting things in order,etc. Not until September 23d did the state of the ice permit us tocarry out our intention of fetching back the things from thegreat hummock. The surface was that day excellent for sledgeswith German - silver runners; wooden runners, on the otherhand, went rather heavily. We had also done some road-makinghere and there, so that the conveyance of the goods went oneasily and rapidly. We brought back to the ship, in all, thirty-six boxes of dog biscuits, and four barrels of petroleum. Nextday we brought all that was left, and stacked it on the ice closeto the ship. On September 16th Scott-Hansen and Nordahl set aboutpreparations for building a proper house for their magnetic ob-
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AUGUST ij TO JANUARY I, 1896 665 servations. Their building material consisted of great blocks ofnew ice, which they piled upon sledges and drove with the aidof the dogs to the site they had chosen. Except for one or twotrial trips which Scott-Hansen had previously made with thedogs, this was the first time the)/ had been employed as draught-animals. They drew well, and the carting went excellently. Thehouse was built entirely of hewn blocks of ice, which wereranged above each other with an inward slant, so that whenfinished it formed a compact circular dome of ice, in form andappearance not unlike a Finn tent. A covered passage of iceled into the house, with a wooden flap for a door. When this observatory was finished, Scott-Hansen gave ahouse-warming, the hut being magnificently decorated for theoccasion. It was furnished with a sofa, and with arm-chairscovered with bear and reindeer skins. The pedestal in themiddle of the floor, on which the magnetic instruments were tobe establish

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