[7] Apparently modelled on the title of the well-known magazine, Kringsjaa, which means “A Look Around” or “Survey.” Framsjaa might be translated “The Fram’s Lookout.”
[8] The name Peter Henriksen generally went by on board.
[9] Refers to the fact that Amundsen hated card-playing more than anything else in the world. He called cards “the devil’s playbooks.”
[10] Nickname of our meteorologist, Johansen, Professor Mohn being a distinguished Norwegian meteorologist.
[11] This signature proved to be forged, and gave rise to a lawsuit so long and intricate that space does not permit an account of it to be given.
[12] He says “ei borsja” for “a gun” instead of “en bosse.”
[13] This was the nickname of the starboard four-berth cabin.
[14] A Norwegian newspaper.
[15] In spite of this bending of the strata, the surface of the ice and snow remained even.
[16] So we called some light trousers of thin close cotton, which we used as a protection against the wind and snow.