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give " Barnet " a good thrashing in order to part him from the 

 other. In consequence of this fight the last team was some- 

 what behind in starting. The other dogs were all the while 

 hauling with all their might, and when the thrashing scene was 

 over, and the disturbers of the peace suddenly commenced to 

 pull, the sledge started off faster than Johansen had calculated, 

 and he was left behind and had to strike out well on his snow- 

 shoes. Scott -Hansen and the others followed the sledging 

 party with their ej'es until they looked like little black dots 

 far, far away on the boundless plain of ice. With a last sad 

 lingering look after the two whom, perhaps, they might never 

 see again, the}- put on their snow-shoes and started on their 

 journey back. 



At the time when the sledge expedition started the Frani lay 

 in 84"^ 4' north latitude and 102° east longitude. The situation 

 was briefly as follows : The vessel was ice-bound in about 25 

 feet of ice, with a slight list to starboard. She had thus a layer 

 of ice, several feet in thickness, underneath her keel. Piled high 

 against the vessel's side, to port, along her entire length, there 

 extended from S.S.E. to N.N.W. a pressure-ridge reaching up 

 to about the height of the rail on the half-deck aft and slanting 

 slightly eastward from the ship. At a distance of about 160 

 yards to the northwest there extended in the direction from 

 south to north a long and fairly broad ice-mound, the so-called 

 "great hummock," as much as 22 feet high in places. Mid- 

 way between the Fnwi and the great hummock there was a 

 newly formed open lane about 50 yards wide, while across her 

 bow, at a distance of 50 yards, there was an old channel that 

 had been closed up by the ice-pressure, but which opened later 

 on in the spring. 



Upon the "great hummock," which had been formed by the 

 violent ice-pressure on January 27, 1894, we had established our 

 depot on the slope looking towards the ship. The depot con- 

 sisted of piled-up tin boxes, containing provisions and other 

 necessaries, and formed six or seven small mounds covered with 

 sail-cloth. Moreover, our snow-shoes and sledges were stored 

 there. Half-way between the vessel and the great hummock 



