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

by Fridtjof Nansen

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