354 THE VOYAGE OF THE " FRAM " 



gether cheerful; it was a good thing when Easter 

 Tuesday came round as an ordinary week-day. 



On ]May 6 we passed Cape Horn in very fair weather ; 

 it is true we had a snow-squall of hurricane violence, 

 but it did not last much more than half an hour. For 

 a few days the temperature was a little below freezing- 

 point, but it rose rapidly as soon as we were out in the 

 Atlantic. 



From Hobart to Cape Horn we saw no ice. 



After passing the Falkland Islands we had a head 

 wind, so that the last part of the trip was nothing to 

 boast of. 



On the night of May 21 we passed JNIontevideo, where 

 the Chief had arrived a few hours before. From here 

 up the River La Plata we went so slowly on account 

 of head wind that we did not anchor in the roads of 

 Buenos Aires till the afternoon of the 23rd, almost 

 exactly at the same time as the Chief landed at Buenos 

 Aires. When I went ashore next morning and met 

 Mr. P. Christophersen, he was in great good-humour. 

 " This is just like a fairy tale," he said; and it could not 

 be denied that it was an amusing coincidence. The 

 Chief, of course, was equally pleased. 



On the 25th, the Argentine National Fete, the Fram 

 was moored at the same quay that we had left on 

 October 5, 1911. At our departure there were exactly 

 seven people on board to say good-bye, but, as far as 

 I could see, there were more than this when we arrived ; 



