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workshops, and as stoker on various steamships. He was second 

 engineer on board the ' Fram.' 



11. Ivar Fosheim was born in Valdres, in 1863, and became a 

 student in 1883. He has been the proprietor of a sanatorium in 

 his native place for several years, and is well known as a sports- 

 man and expert hunter. 



12. Adolf Henrik Lindstrom is from Hammerfest. He was 

 born in 1865, and from his earliest youth had been to sea as a 

 steward, a position which he also held on the expedition. 



13. Sverre Hassel was born at Christiania in 1876. After 

 serving on the training-ship ' Kristiania,' and passing his mate's 

 examination, he was for several years constable in the naval corps 

 at Horten. 



14. Eudolf Stolz was born at Christiania, in 1872. He had 

 been a clerk, and later a broker. 



15. Ove Braskerud was born in the district of Solor, in 1872. 

 Like Fosheim and Stolz, he made himself generally useful on board, 

 and, together with the latter, acted as stoker. 



On St. Hans' Day, June 24, 1898, we were ready for sea. 

 The fjord was grey and sad-looking, and memories of the former 

 ' Fram ' expedition came back to me. Then, too, we sailed on 

 St. Hans' Day, and, as now, in the same cloudy weather. I 

 wondered what the voyage would bring this time. The only 

 thing that made it a little warm around one, was the crowd 

 which had collected to see us off. The quays were tightly 

 packed with people, and every height and point was black with 

 them; while the fjord was covered with rowing-boats, sailing- 

 boats, and small steamers which had come to see the last of us and 

 wish us a safe return home. 



On board the ' Fram ' everything still lay pell-mell ; cases, 

 packages, animals, and people in the wildest confusion, although 

 the crew had been working for two days to get things ship-shape. 

 At last, at half- past eleven in the forenoon, we got under way, 

 and steamed down the fjord, through the shouting and the swarm 

 of boats, until the waving mass of people vanished in the fjord ' 

 mist. The slight breeze which had been blowing when we started 

 increased by degrees to a moderate gale, and by the time we 



