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

Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers.

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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      487

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
• “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
• 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      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
• “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
• 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
• 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
• 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