198 ON THE BARRIER 



Karinius Olsen took over from that day the whole of 

 the cooking on the Fram, and performed this work in an 

 extremely conscientious and capable way until the ship 

 reached Hobart in March, 1912, when he again had 

 assistance. This was well done for a lad of twenty. I 

 wish we had many like him. 



With Lindstrom, then, the kitchen and the daily 

 bread were in order. The smoke rose gaily from the 

 shining black chimney, and proclaimed that now the 

 Barrier was really inhabited. How cosy it was, when we 

 came sledging up after the day's work, to see that smoke 

 rising into the air. It is a little thing really, but never- 

 theless it means so much. With Lindstrom came not 

 only food, but light and air both of them his specialties. 

 The Lux lamp was the first thing he rigged up, giving 

 us a light that contributed much to the feeling of 

 comfort and well-being through the long winter. He 

 also provided us with air, but in this he had Stubberud 

 as a partner. These two together managed to give us 

 the finest, purest Barrier air in our room during the 

 whole stay. It is true that this was not done without 

 hard work, but they did not mind that. The ventila- 

 tion was capricious, and liable to fail now and then. 

 This usually happened when there was a dead calm. 

 Many were the ingenious devices employed by the firm 

 to set the business going again. Generally a Primus 

 stove was used under the exhaust pipe, and ice applied 

 to the supply pipe. While one of them lay on his 



