When the shore party next morning came down as usual at a swinging pace, they saw to their astonishment that the Fram was gone.
So the good old Fram has shown the flag of Norway both farthest north and farthest south.
The Fram had been in dry dock, where the hull was thoroughly coated with composition.
As the latter were rather slippery, and the Framsuddenly gave an unexpected lurch, he was carried off his legs, and left sitting on the deck, while his bucket of water poured all over him.
The Kainan Maru had put to sea in company with the Fram during the gale of January 27, and since that time we had seen nothing of them.
Under the expert direction of Bjaaland and Stubberud, as many as possible of the crew were set to work with axe and saw, and in the course of a few hours the Fram had got a new deck.
The Fram steers splendidly, however, when she is in proper trim, and turns as if on a pivot; besides which, it was calm.
The soundings, which showed a rapid rise in the bottom as the Fram changed her position southward along the Barrier, are also a clear sign that land is close at hand.
On June 3, early in the forenoon, the Fram left Christiania, bound at first for my home on Bundefjord.
The Fram was cruising some way out, but when we came near enough for them to see us, they made all haste to come in to the ice-foot.
To be able to avoid the seas as the Fram did, she had to roll, and this we had every opportunity of finding out.
As regards the distance sailed, November, 1911, is the best month the Fram has had.
The whiche delyt only considerede Epicurus, and iuged and establisshed that delyt is 55 the sovereyn good; for as moche as alle othre thinges, as him thoughte, bi-refte awey Ioye and mirthe fram the herte.
For al so wel sholden they han ben 75 faire by hem-selve, though they weren departed framalle thyne richesses.
In the construction of the Fram it was sought to solve this problem by avoiding plane or concave surfaces, thus giving the vessel as far as possible round and full lines.
The Fram Expedition was apparently not very popular at that time, and our cash balance amounted to about forty pesos (about (L)3 10s.
As a fishing-boat the Fram is on the whole not very successful.
All told, we were now twenty men on board, and after the Fram had sailed for a year rather short-handed, she could now be said to have a full crew again.
They had been looking out for the Fram since the beginning of February, and had given us up long ago.
Therefore the Fram was dressed with flags from stem to stern, and therefore faces beamed at each other as we said good-bye to our home on the Barrier.
What made us look forward to our return with some excitement was the possibility of seeing the Fram again, and this thought was no doubt in the minds of all of us that January morning, though we did not say much about it.
The Fram then lay idle in the naval harbour until 1905, when she was used by the marine artillery as a floating magazine.
The meteorological outfit on the Fram consisted of the following instruments and apparatus: Three mercury barometers, namely: One normal barometer by Fuess, No.
Although the Fram was not specially built for ramming, it was probable that now and then she would be obliged to force her way through the ice.
On the morning of the 17th, then, the sails were clewed up, and the Fram began to roll even worse than with the sails set.
It was lucky for us that the Fram sails so much more easily now than in 1910, otherwise we should have taken six months to reach the Barrier.
With trembling hands I tore open the telegram: "Fridtjof Nansen: "Fram arrived in good condition.
In the beginning of September we found that the Fram was drawing more and more water, so that we had a stiff job every day to pump and bale her empty.
Only when we came up nearly to the houses did he inquire more particularly about the Fram and our drifting, and I briefly told him our story.
The Fram was no longer a helpless ball, tossed to and fro at the caprice of the drift-ice.
To-day the work of extricating the Fram is proceeding; we will at all events get the rails clear of the ice.
On one of these occasions the Fram received a blow in the ribs that hardly any other vessel would have withstood.
We are again on board the Fram to make a fresh start, for the third time, and then, I suppose, it will be in earnest.
The order, however, was not quickly enough executed, and when I came on deck half an hour later the Fram was already drifting down through the channel.
As I said before, theFram had, ever since the first week in May, been fast embedded in a large floe of ice, which daily diminished in extent.
On board the Fram there might be one or two things lacking; but here we lacked practically everything.
How delightful our life on board the Fram appeared, when we had the whole library to fall back upon!
Sverdrup has a great desire to go; but I cannot think otherwise than that there is more risk in leaving the Fram than in remaining on board her.
The ferthe is a fortune That florissheth the soule, With sobretee fram alle synne, And also yit moore It afaiteth the flesshFram folies ful manye, A collateral confort, Cristes owene gifte.
For-thi I counseille alle cristene To conformen hem to charite, For charite withouten chalangynge Unchargeth the soule, And many a prison fram purgatorie {316} Thorugh his preieres he delivereth.
I frayned hym firstFram whennes he come, And of whennes he were, And whider that he soughte.
Ich sawe the feld ful of folk Framende to the other; And Reson revested Ryght as a pope, And Conscience his crocer Byfore the kynge stande.
I affrayned hym first Fram whennes he come, And what he highte, and whider he wolde; And wightly he tolde.
The Framwas shaken and lifted up; didn't mind a bit.
We landed and made sure that some straits or fjords on the inside of this island, to the south, were quite closed with firm ice; and in the evening the Fram forced her way through the drift-ice on the outside of it.
Then we held farther out from land and got into deeper water, so that the Fram could come on again at full speed.
It had turned cold during the night and snow had fallen, so the sea round the Fram was covered with tolerably thick snow-ice, and it cost us a good deal of exertion to break through it into open water with the boat.
On August 3d they shifted coal on board the Fram from the ship's hold down to the stoke-hold (coal bunkers).
The fact that there will be two men less is of little importance, for the Fram can be handled quite as well with eleven men.
The safe return of brave Captain Sverdrup with the Fram does not excuse Nansen.
As the Fram cut into the ice crust she gave a sort of spring forward, and, after this, went on at her ordinary speed; and henceforth we had very little more trouble with dead-water.
Above my door and on over Hansen's they had the pennant with Fram in big letters.
The fog was often so thick that it was with difficulty we could catch a glimpse of the Fram, which followed close behind us, and on board the Fram they could not see our boat.
After giving still more conclusive proofs that the Fram must inevitably go to the bottom as soon as it should be exposed to the pressure of the ice, he goes on to refer to the impossibility of drifting in the ice with boats.
Sverdrup's consistency, courage, and skill in holding fast to the Fram and bringing his comrades back to Norway will win for him, in the minds of many, laurels even brighter than those of his able and accomplished chief.
The Fram lies yonder at Pepperviken, impatiently panting and waiting for the signal, when the launch comes puffing past Dyna and runs alongside.
Up they rushed on deck; for now the Fram was to be put to the test--and gloriously she passed through it!
Nansen assured him he felt no doubt of the safety of the ship, and that he placed as much confidence in the Fram as he did in himself.
Meanwhile the Fram toiled on through the gloomy melancholy of the night out into the unknown.
Fram to the severest strain any ship ever encountered, and lived.
The anchor is weighed; and after making the tour of the little creek, the Framsteams down the fjord.
Fram reached eighty degrees north latitude, an event that was duly celebrated on board.
Once the Fram buried her bows and shipped a sea over the forecastle.
Autumn passed away and Christmas arrived while the Fram was drifting between seventy-nine and eighty-one degrees north latitude.
The Fram proceeded on her course the next day, passing a number of unknown islands, to which Nansen gave names.
A whaler, with a crow's-nest on her foretop, was lying in the harbor, to convey the visitors to the spot where the Fram was lying on the stocks.
And dost thau expect by an excess of Assurance to extart a Maintenance fram me?
Muche folke þerhenne he toke þo, Northern men Of Northumber-lond also 592 and others come Framdyverse places to Arthour come to Arthur.
A single one of these gigantic waves would have cleared our decks in an instant if it had come on board, but the Fram did not permit any such impertinence.
On the 9th I went on board to say good-bye, as presumably the Framwould have sailed when we came back.
The most southerly latitude reached by the Fram was 78° 41'.
The work went merrily, backwards and forwards, and the journey to the Framin the morning with empty sledges was specially enjoyable.
On July 23 the Fram left Bergen, and arrived on the following day at Christiansand, where I met her.
There were many men on board the Fram with a wealth of experience gained during years spent within the Arctic Circle, but to almost all of us the great Antarctic continent was a terra incognita.
The first thing he did when theFram reached Buenos Aires was to explain to the local representative of the Singer Sewing Machine Company how absolutely necessary it was to have his loss made good.
However, as I got to know each man during these first few weeks of our long voyage, I soon arrived at the conviction that there was nobody on board the Fram who would try to put difficulties in the way.
But, though he found that the current was in nearly the right direction, it would not carry him over the Pole; so he and one companion left the Fram at latitude 83° 59´ and started for the North Pole on foot.
Amundsen is coming to visit the Fram to-morrow, and we are staying long enough to allow Pennell and Campbell to interview him.
It appears that Amundsen, Johansen and six men had arrived at the Fram this morning at about 6.
The Fram acts like a cork in the sea; she rolls tremendously but does not ship water, and during the voyage they have had the dogs running loose about the decks.
Fram rose to the occasion as she was built to do, the story has still, after twenty-eight years, the thrill of novelty.
While returning from an abortive attempt to land here they found a Norwegian expedition under Captain Roald Amundsen in Nansen's old ship the Fram in the Bay of Whales: reference to this expedition will be found elsewhere.
Undoubtedly there was more risk in leaving the Fram than in remaining in her.
He that made heven and erthe and sonne and mone for to schine, Bring ous into his riche and scheld ous fram helle pine!
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