THE MEETING AT TROMSOE 105 



before and was then at Hammerfest and probably 

 leaving for Tromsoe. For Tromsoe Sverdrup started, 

 after telegraphing to Nansen. And there, at four 

 o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1896, 

 Sir George Baden-Powell's yacht Ot-aria, with Nansen 

 and Johansen on board, glided alongside the Fram, the 

 good little ship looking much weather-beaten though 

 none the worse for such a task of strength and endur- 

 ance as had been set no other in the story of the sea. 



