xiv LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Three Friends from Inglefield Gulf, 1899 421 



View of Gaasedalen 437 



An Unbidden Guest. (From a drawing by H. Bruri) 441 



The ' Commandant ' on Guard 445 



Outer Part of Stordalen 449 



The ' Fram ' on Fire. (From a drawing by Otto Sinding) 463 



A Holiday on Board 471 



Home from the Journey. Isachsen and Hassel 491 



ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT. 



An Idyl on the Arctic Ocean 22 



' Gammelgulen,' ' Lasse,' ' Svartflekken,' ' Basen ' 23 



A Quieted Bear 29 



Southern Part of Rice Strait 44" 



Eice Strait, North of Frams Havn 51 



Mount Kola Paalsen. Fort Juliana . . 52 



Baumann 58 



From Stenkjser. Fosheim's First Polar Ox 67 



Opposite Stenkjaer. Splendid Ground for Game 71 



Interior. Drawing a ' Bottle-nose ' in the Fore-cabin 81 



Kolotengva's Arrival 98 



Kolotengva mends his Sledge 99 



Onr Guests in Night Attire 103 



Peder Hendriksen 107 



The First Day in the Spring Forge Ill 



Our Camp at the Head of Flagler Fjord 118 



On the Isthmus between Flagler Fjord and Bay Fjord 121 



I._View of the Big Canon 123 



II. The Big Canon, Farther West 124 



The Westernmost Sands, with Tommen to the left 131 



The Procession forms, Seventeenth of May, 1899 144 



The Dogs go a Seventeenth of May Procession 14G 



The Doctor speaks in honour of the Day 148 



I. Bay Fjord, Farthest West 152 



II. Bay Fjord. Farther East 155 



III. From the Head of Bay Fjord, Farthest East 156 



