138 EKMAN. ON DEAD-WATER. [norw. POL. EXP. 



steam, to raise her speed by two or three knots. By wasting steam in this 

 way for only a few minutes, the Fram would almost certainly have got 

 rid of the dead-water; and this accomplished, the engine might then have 

 been shifted into triple again. In this way she would with considerable 

 saving of coal have reached her harbour in a small fraction of Hie time 

 which actually was spent. 



