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

Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers.

All rights reserved.

TO
HER
WHO CHRISTENED THE SHIP
AND
HAD THE COURAGE TO REMAIN BEHIND

Contents of Vol. I.

• Chap.      Page
• I. Introduction      1
• II. Preparations and Equipment      54
• III. The Start      81
• IV. Farewell To Norway      104
• V. Voyage Through the Kara Sea      146
• VI. The Winter Night      237
• VII. The Spring and Summer of 1894      442
• VIII. Second Autumn in the Ice      525

Illustrations in Vol. I.

•        Page.
• Fridtjof Nansen      Etched Frontispiece
• Colin Archer      58
• Design of the “Fram”      61
• Sigurd Scott-Hansen      85
• Adolf Juell      89
• The “Fram” leaving Bergen      93
• Otto Sverdrup      99
• First drift-ice (July 28, 1893)      107
• The new church and the old church at Khabarova      116
• Peter Henriksen      119
• Our trial trip with the dogs      127
• Evening scene at Khabarova      131
• O. Christofersen and A. Trontheim      135
• Landing on Yalmal      148
• The plain of Yalmal      150
• In the Kara Sea      152
• The “Fram” in the Kara Sea      155
• Ostrova Kamenni (Rocky Island), off the coast of Siberia      158
• Theodor C. Jacobsen, mate of the “Fram”      161
• Henrik Blessing      167
• A dead bear on Reindeer Island (August 21, 1893)      172
• “We first tried to drag the bears”      173
• Bernard Nordahl      177
• Ivar Mogstad      185
• Bernt Bentzen      193
• Lars Pettersen      205
• Anton Amundsen      213
• Cape Chelyuskin, the Northernmost point of the Old World      218
• On land East of Cape Chelyuskin (September 10, 1893)      219
• A warm corner among the walruses, off East Taimur      223
• The ice into which the “Fram” was frozen (September 25, 1893)      234
• The smithy on the “Fram”      239
• The thermometer house      244
• Magnetic observations      247
• A smoke in the galley of the “Fram”      250
• “The saloon was converted into a reading-room”      252
• Scott-Hansen and Johansen inspecting the barometers      Facing p. 254
• Dr. Blessing in his cabin      257
• “I let loose some of the dogs”      263
• The men who were afraid of frightening the bear. “Off steals Blessing on tiptoe”      267
• Dogs chained on the ice      272
• We lay in open water      275
• My first attempt at dog driving      289
• A chronometer—observation with the theodolite      Facing p. 314
• A lively game of cards      318
• “‘I took the lantern and gave him such a whack on the head with it’”      330
• A nocturnal visitant      336
• Sverdrup’s bear-trap (moonlight, December 20, 1893)      339
• “He stared, hesitating, at the delicious morsel”      341
• Promenade in times of peace with Sverdrup’s patent foot-gear      345
• “Fram” fellows on the war-path: difference between the Sverdrup and the Lapp foot-gear      346
• “Fram” fellows still on the war-path      347
• “It was strange once more to see the moonlight playing on the coal-black waves”      351
• A game of halma      355
• First appearance of the sun      394
• Diagrams of ice with layers      401
• Johansen reading the anemometer      409
• Two friends      418
• Experiment in sledge sailing      421
• At the coming of the Spring (March, 1894)      425
• Returning home after sunset (March 31, 1894)      429
• Observing the eclipse of the sun (April 6, 1894)      433
• Tailpiece      441
• Taking a sounding of 2058 fathoms      447
• Home-sickness (June 16, 1894)      451
• Sailing on the fresh-water pool (July 12, 1894)      454
• Reading temperatures with lens      Facing p. 456
• Peter Henriksen in a brown study (July 6, 1894)      461
• Taking water temperatures      466
• Summer guests      469
• Rhodos Tethia      473
• Nansen takes a walk (July 6, 1894)      477
• Our kennels (September 27, 1894)      480
• The dogs basking in the sun (June 13, 1894)      482
• The Seventeenth-of-May procession, 1894      485
• The drift-ice in Summer (July 12, 1894)      487
• A Summer scene (July 21, 1894)      493
• The stern of the “Fram.” Johansen and “Sultan” (June 16, 1894)      499
• Blessing goes off in search of algæ      503
• A Summer evening (July 14, 1894)      505
• Blessing fishing for algæ      507
• Pressure-ridge on the port quarter of the “Fram” (July 1, 1894)      509
• Skeletons of a kayak for one man (bamboo) and of a double kayak, lying on a hand-sledge      511
• A Summer evening (July 14, 1894)      519
• Tailpiece      524
• Pettersen after the explosion      529
• Snow-shoe practice (September 28, 1894)      542
• Return from a snow-shoe run (September 28, 1894)      544
• Block of ice (September 28, 1894)      546
• The waning day (October, 1894)      548
• A snow-shoe excursion (October, 1894)      553
• In line for the photographer      555
• Deep-water temperature. “Up with the thermometer” (July 12, 1894)      559
• On the after-deck of the “Fram” (October, 1894)      563
• The return of snow-shoers      Facing p. 566

Colored Plates in Vol. I.

•        Facing p.
• I. Walruses killed off the East coast of the Taimur Peninsula (September 12, 1893)      220
• II. Sleepy and cross (September 12, 1893)      228
• III. Sunset off the North coast of Asia, North of the mouth of the Chatanga (September 12, 1893)      232
• IV. Off the edge of the ice.—Gathering storm (September 14, 1893)      290
• V. Evening among the drift-ice (September 22, 1893)      304
• VI. At sunset (September 22, 1893)      324
• VII. The waning polar day (September 22, 1893)      352
• VIII. Moonlight (November 22, 1893)      576

Publisher’s Note

The Author had not originally contemplated the publication of the colored sketches which are produced in this work. He has permitted their reproduction because they may be useful as showing color effects in the Arctic; but he wishes it understood that he claims no artistic merit for them.