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

Fridtjof Nansen

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• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Farthest North, by Fridtjof Nansen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Author: Fridtjof Nansen Contributor: Otto Sverdrup Release Date: October 7, 2009 [EBook #30197] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FARTHEST NORTH *** Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ Original Title Page. 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. I. New York and London Harper & Brothers Publishers Etched frontispiece of Fridtjof Nansen. 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.