Illustrations in Vol. I.

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[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