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same morning we got a pilot aboard, and at seven in 

 the evening we anchored in the roads of Buenos Aires. 



We had then been nearly once round the world, and 

 for over seven months the anchor had not been out. 



We had reckoned on a two months' voyage from the 

 ice, and it had taken us sixty-two days. 



IV. 



The Oceanographical Cruise. 



According to the programme, the Fram was to go 

 on an oceanographical cruise in the South Atlantic, and 

 my orders were that this was to be arranged to suit the 

 existing circumstances. I had reckoned on a cruise of 

 about three months. We should have to leave Buenos 

 Aires at the beginning of October to be down in the ice 

 at the right time (about the New Year). 



As we were too short-handed to work the ship, 

 take soundings, etc., the following four seamen were 

 engaged: H. Halvorsen, A. Olsen, F. Steller, and 

 J. Andersen. 



At last we were more or less ready, and the Fram 

 sailed from Buenos Aires on June 8, 1911, the anni- 

 versary of our leaving Horten on our first hydrographic 

 cruise in the North Atlantic. I suppose there was no 

 one on board on June 8, 1910, who dreamed that a year 

 later we should go on a similar cruise in the South. 



