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was the very least that could happen after such a 

 terrible commotion. But the hurly-burly went on 

 and nothing came of it." 



The Frarn had to follow the coast owing to the thick 

 pack barring the way across the sea. The mouth of 

 the Chatanga was passed, then that of the Olenek, and 

 then the influence of the warm water of the Lena 

 being apparent by the clearance of the floes, the course 

 was laid straight for the Pole in open water until 

 77 44' was reached, when, checked by the long com- 

 pact edge of ice shining through the fog, the route 

 became north-westerly until they stopped for fear they 

 should get near land, which was the very thing they 

 wished to avoid ; and on the 25th of September in 

 about 78|- north latitude north-west of Sannikof 

 Land they were frozen in. 



Preparations for wintering began. The rudder was 

 hauled up, the engine was taken to pieces, each separate 

 part oiled and laid away with the greatest care for 

 Amundsen looked after it as if it were his own child- 

 a carpenter's shop was started in the hold, a smithy 

 arranged first on deck and then on the ice. But it all 

 had to be replaced, even the engine put together again, 

 for the pack cleared away for a brief period, to return, 

 when again the shiftings were made ; and when the 

 windmill was put up to drive the dynamo, the winter 

 installation was in all senses complete. 



Slowly the Fram drifted in her ice-berth, so slowly 

 that at the end of twelve months she had moved from 

 point to point only 189 miles, having returned no fur- 

 ther west than the longitude of the Olenek ; her 

 highest north, attained on the 18th of June, being 



