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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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eredsome exasperating howls, so piercing and weird that Ihad to stop my ears. It was evidently on its way to mythings again, and was now provoked at being disturbed.I got hold of some large stones and flung them at it.It ran off a little way, but then seated itself upon theedge of the glacier and howled on, while I went hometo the hut in a rage, lay down, and speculated as to whatwe should do to be revenged on the obnoxious animals.We could not spare cartridges to shoot them with, butwe might make a trap of stones. This we determinedto do, but nothing ever came of it; there were always somany other things to occupy us at first, while we stillhad the opportunity, before the snow covered the talus,and while it was light enough to find suitable stones.Meanwhile the foxes continued to annoy us. One daythey had taken our thermometer,* which we always keptoutside the hut, and gone off with it. We searched for it * It was a registering thermometer, which was also used as a sling-thermometer.
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LAND AT LAST 433 in vain for a long time, until at last we found it buriedin a heap of snow a little way off. From that time wewere very careful to place a stone over it at night, butone morning found that the foxes had turned over thestone, and had rane off with the thermometer aeain.The only thing we found this time was the case, whichthey had thrown away a little way off. The thermom-eter itself we were never to see again; the snow hadunfortunately drifted in the night, so that the trackshad disappeared. Goodness only knows what fox-holeit now adorns ; but from that day we learned a les-son, and henceforward fastened our last thermometersecurely. Meanwhile time passed. The sun sank lower andlower, until on October 15th we saw it for the lasttime above the ridge to the south; the clays grew rapidlydarker, and then began our third polar night. We shot two more bears in the autumn, one on the8th and one on the 21st of October; but from that timewe saw no more until the following sprin

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