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change in the plan of the expedition had been received 

 at home and abroad. 



It must have been at least a week before there was 

 any noticeable ebb in the flood of questions and answers.' 

 That week went by quickly ; perhaps more quickly than 

 we really cared for, since it proved that the Fram was 

 not really able to keep pace with time. The weather 

 remained quite well behaved, but not exactly in the 

 way we wished. We had reckoned that the south- 

 easterly and easterly winds, so frequent around Fram- 

 heim, would also show themselves out in Ross Sea, but 

 they entirely forgot to do so. We had little wind, and 

 when there was any, it was, as a rule, a slant from the 

 north, always enough to delay our honest old ship. It 

 was impossible to take any observations for the first 

 eight days, the sky was continuously overcast. If one 

 occasionally asked the skipper about her position, he 

 usually replied that the only thing that could be said for 

 certain was that we were in Ross Sea. On February 7, 

 however, according to a fairly good noon observation, 

 we were well to the north of Cape Adare, and therefore 

 beyond the limits of the Antarctic Continent. On the 

 way northward we passed Cape Adare at a distance 

 hardly greater than could have been covered with a 

 good day's sailing ; but our desire of making this detour 

 had to give way to the chief consideration — northward, 

 northward as quickly as possible. 



There is usually plenty of wind in the neighbourhood 



