352 THE VOYAGE OF THE " FRA]\I 



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lat. 52° and 53° S, Gales from the north are almost 

 the order of the day," etc. However, it is an ill wind 

 that hlows nobody any good, and the time was well 

 employed with all we had to do. 



After a five weeks' struggle we at last reached Hobart 

 and anchored in the splendid harbour on ^March 7. 



Our fresh provisions from Buenos Aires just lasted 

 out ; the last of the fresh potatoes were finished a couple 

 of days before our arrival, and the last pig was killed 

 when we had been at Hobart two days. 



The Fram remained here for thirteen days, which 

 were chiefly spent in repairing the propeller and clean- 

 ing the engine; in addition to this the topsail-yard, 

 which was nearly broken in the middle, was spliced, 

 as we had no opportunity of getting a new one. 



The first week was quiet on board, as, owing to the 

 circumstances, there was no communication with the 

 shore; but after that the ship was full of visitors, so 

 that we were not very sorry to get away again. 



Twenty-one of our dogs were presented to Dr. ^lawson, 

 the leader of the Australian expedition, and only those 

 dogs that had been to the South Pole and a few puppies, 

 eighteen in all, were left on board. 



While we lay in Hobart, Dr. Mawson's ship, the 

 Aurora, came in. I went aboard her one day, and 

 have thus been on board the vessels of all the present 

 Antarctic expeditions. On the Terra Nova, the British, 

 on February 4, 1911, in the Bay of Whales; on the 



