THE SEA NORTH OF THE FRAM S COURSE, AND THEN CAME SOUTH 

 TO FRANZ JOSEF LAND, WHENCE THE WINDWARD HAS NOW 

 BROUGHT US. I EXPECT THE FRAM TO RETURN THIS YEAR. 



FRIDTJOF NANSEN 



About a week later the following telegram was delivered to 

 Nansen: 



FRAM ARRIVED IN GOOD CONDITION. ALL WELL ON BOARD. 

 SHALL START AT ONCE FOR TROMSO. WELCOME HOME. 



OTTO SVERDRUP 



Nansen was overwhelmed with joy when with everyone cheer- 

 ing he sailed out to meet the Fram. There is little to add. The rest 

 of the Story of the Fram was a repetition of the previous years. Her 

 drift was capricious, but she moved steadily north, and even 

 reached a latitude of 85° 57' N., the farthest point that any ship had 

 been until Anderson and the Nautilus dived under the ice. Winter 

 passed, and then in May they began to prepare to emerge from the 

 ice. With the aid of ice picks, gunpowder, and lances they helped to 

 break the Fram from her cold matrix. Not until June 27 did the 

 ice slacken enough so that she was clear. Finally on August 13, 

 1896, the Fram emerged and rocked triumphantly on the ocean. 



Nansen did this woodcut stiowing tlie Fram 

 beneatii a ribboniike curtain of ttie 

 aurora borealis during tiie Arctic night. 



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