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father, Clans Nielsen, was a farmer and ship-owner. In 

 1879 he passed his mates examination, and has been 

 captain of a ship many years. He is married, and has 

 four children. 



Lars Pcttcrsen, second engineer of the Frani, was 

 born in i860, at Borre, near Landskrona, in Sweden, of 

 Norwegian parents. He is a fully qualified smith and 

 machinist, in which capacity he has served in the Nor- 

 wegian navy for several years. Is married, and has 

 children. 



Frcdcrik Hjalmar Johansai, lieutenant in the Re- 

 serve, was born at Skien in 1867, and matriculated at 

 the University in 1886. In 1891-92 he went to the 

 Military School and became a supernumerary officer. 

 He was so eager to take part in the expedition that, as 

 no other post could be found for him, he accepted that 

 of stoker. 



Peter Leonard Henriksen, harpooner, was born in 

 Balsfjord, near Tromso, in 1859. From childhood he 

 has been a sailor, and from fourteen years old has gone 

 on voyages to the Arctic Sea as harpooner and skipper. 

 In 1 888 he was shipwrecked off Novaya Zemlya in the 

 sloop Enigheden, from Christiansund. He is married, 

 and has four children. 



Bernhard NordaJil was born in Christiania in 1862. 

 At the age of fourteen he entered the navy, and ad- 

 vanced to be a gunner. Subsequently he has done a 

 little of everything, and, among other things, has worked 



