Farthest North

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Title: Farthest North, Vol. II

Author: Fridtjof Nansen

Contributor: Otto Neumann Sverdrup

Release date: October 23, 2010 [eBook #34120]
Most recently updated: December 23, 2022

Language: English

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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

By Dr. Fridtjof Nansen
With an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram

About 120 Full-page and Numerous Text Illustrations 16 Colored Plates in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen’s Own Sketches, Etched Portrait, and Photogravures
In two volumes
Vol. II.
New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers

Sailing Kayaks

Sailing Kayaks

Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers.

All rights reserved.

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