. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. pon weencamped on the shore-ice. The temperature w^as aboutthe same as we had usually had of late—about freezingpoint. The next morning we had again to haul the sledgesand the kayaks over some ice which had collected in thecourse of the night in front of the shore-ice. Afterhaving got into open water we sailed before a north-westerly wind for six or seven hours at a fairly goodpace. It was wet work sailing in our ka3aks ; my clotheswere still wet, and during the night of August 8th I feltthe cold not a little; but we were

. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. pon weencamped on the shore-ice. The temperature w^as aboutthe same as we had usually had of late—about freezingpoint. The next morning we had again to haul the sledgesand the kayaks over some ice which had collected in thecourse of the night in front of the shore-ice. Afterhaving got into open water we sailed before a north-westerly wind for six or seven hours at a fairly goodpace. It was wet work sailing in our ka3aks ; my clotheswere still wet, and during the night of August 8th I feltthe cold not a little; but we were Stock Photo

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. With Nansen in the north; a record of the Fram expedition in 1893-96. pon weencamped on the shore-ice. The temperature w^as aboutthe same as we had usually had of late—about freezingpoint. The next morning we had again to haul the sledgesand the kayaks over some ice which had collected in thecourse of the night in front of the shore-ice. Afterhaving got into open water we sailed before a north-westerly wind for six or seven hours at a fairly goodpace. It was wet work sailing in our ka3aks ; my clotheswere still wet, and during the night of August 8th I feltthe cold not a little; but we were getting on quickly, sowe did not mind any bodily discomfort. The weather NEARING LAND 231 was again loggy, and we could see very little roundabout us, but at last it cleared up sufficiently for us todiscern some fresh land just inside the edge of the icealong which we were sailing. This was a small islandcovered with ice and snow, like the two other islands wehad just passed; and opposite this island, farther toS.S.W., we saw some other land which was much larger..

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