BUILDING THE HUT 73 



Professors Nansen and Helland-Hansen had devoted 

 many an hour to our oceanographical equipment, which 

 was therefore a model of what such an equipment 

 should be. Lieutenants Prestrud and Gjertsen had 

 both gone through the necessary course in oceanog- 

 raphy under Helland - Hansen at the Bergen bio- 

 logical station. I myself had spent a summer there, 

 and taken part in one of the oceanographical courses. 

 Professor Helland-Hansen was a brilliant teacher ; I am 

 afraid I cannot assert that I was an equally brilliant 

 pupil. 



Professor Mohn had given us a complete meteoro- 

 logical outfit. Among the instruments belonging to the 

 Fram I may mention a pendulum apparatus, an excel- 

 lent astronomical theodolite, and a sextant. Lieutenant 

 Prestrud studied the use of the pendulum apparatus 

 under Professor Schiotz and the use of the astronomical 

 theodolite under Professor Geelmuyden. We had in 

 addition several sextants and artificial horizons, both 

 glass and mercury. We had binoculars of all sizes, 

 from the largest to the smallest. 



So far I have been dealing with our general outfit, 

 and shall now pass to the special equipment of the 

 shore party. The hut we took out was built on my 

 property on Bundef jord, so that I was able to watch the 

 work as it progressed. It was built by the brothers 

 Hans and Jorgen Stubberud, and was throughout a 

 splendid piece of work, which did honour to both the 



