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would be rather too much of a good thing to say 

 nothing of its being dead against every calculation. 



" Well, who cares ? Somewhere we must go ; we can't 

 stay here for ever. ' It will all come right in the end,' 

 as the saying goes ; but I wish we could get on a little 

 faster wherever we are o-oino-. On our Greenland 



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Expedition, too, we were carried south to begin with, 

 and that ended well." 



"Sunday, October 22nd. Henriksen took soundings 

 this morning, and found 70 fathoms (129 m.) of water. 

 ' If we are drifting at all,' said he, ' it is to the east ; 

 but there seems to be almost no movement.' No wind 

 to-day. I am keeping in my den." 



" Monday, October 23rd. Still in the den. To- 

 day, 5 fathoms shallower than yesterday. The line 

 points south-west, which means that we are drifting 

 north-eastward. Hansen has reckoned out the observa- 

 tion for the i Qth, and finds that we must have got 

 10 minutes farther north, and must be in 78 15' N. 

 lat. So at last, now that the wind has gone down, 

 the north-going current is making itself felt. Some 

 channels have opened near us, one along the side of the 

 ship, and one ahead, near the old channel. Only slight 

 signs of pressure in the afternoon." 



" Tuesday, October 24th. Between 4 and 5 a.m. 

 there was strong pressure, and the Fram was lifted up a 

 little. It looks as if the pressure were going to begin 

 again ; we have spring-tide with full-moon. The ice 



