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Title: 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
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930 Sverdrup, Otto Neumann, 1854-1930
Subjects: "Fram" Expedition. 1893-1896)
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ll three were young birds, about 12inches in length, with dark mottled gray plumage on theback and wings; the breast and under side white, with ascarcely perceptible tinge of orange-red, and round theneck a dark ring sprinkled with gray. At a somewhatlater age this mottled plumage disappears; they thenbecome blue on the back, with a black ring round theneck, while the breast assumes a delicate pink hue.Some few days afterwards (August 6th and Sth) somemore of these birds were shot, making eight specimensin all. While time was passing on, the plan I had been re-volving in my mind during the winter was ever upper-most in my thoughts — the plan, that is to say, of ex-ploring the unknown sea apart from the track in whichthe Frain was drifting, I kept an anxious eye upon thedogs, for fear anything should happen to them, and alsoto see that they continued in good condition, for all myhopes centred in them. Several of them, indeed, hadbeen bitten to death, and two had been killed by bears;
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RHODOS TETHIA (From a photograph) THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF i8g4 47S but there were still twenty-six remaining, and as a set-off against our losses w^e had the puppies, eight of whichhad been permitted to live. As spring advanced theywere allowed to roam the deck, but on May 5th theirworld was considerably extended. I wrote thus: Inthe afternoon we let the puppies loose on the ice, and Kvik at once took long expeditions with them to famil-iarize them with their surroundings. First she introducedthem to our meteorological apparatus, then to the bear-trap, and after that to different pressure-mounds. Theywere very cautious at first, staring timidly all around,and venturing out very slowly, a step at a time, from theships side; but soon they began to run riot in theirnewly discovered world. Kvik was very proud to conduct her litter out intothe world, and roamed about in the highest of spirits,though she had only just returned from a long drivingexpedition, in which, as usual, she had done

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