5 So 



FARTHEST NORTH 



was it ? I saw it on the starboard bow, stretching low 

 and even towards the south. I looked again and again. 

 It was land, it was Norway ! I stood as if turned to 

 stone, and gazed and gazed out into the night at this 



" WE STOOD LOOKING OVER THE SEA 



same dark line, and fear began to tremble in my breast. 

 What were the tidings that awaited me there .f* 



When I came on deck next morning we were close 

 under the land. It was a bare and naked shore we had 

 come up to, scarcely more inviting than the land we had 

 left up in the mist of the Arctic Ocean — but it was Nor- 

 way. The captain had mistaken the coast in the night 

 and had come in too far north, and we were still to have 



