Our combination dining-room and salon, the captain’s 
cabin; a bath-room, alias dark-room; as well as engine-room 
and galley, were in this deck-house. 
Incidentally, the salon was equipped with library, ranging 
from lightest novels to most technical accounts of Polar ex- 
Here a talking-machine and various games were 
kept, for whiling te¬ 
dious hours away. 
Our crew were 
Norwegians; some of 
them worthy of note. 
Captain Jen Oien, for 
example, had had ten 
summers in the Arc¬ 
tic, one as first mate 
of the Frithjof, on 
the Swedish Expedi¬ 
tion to Spitzbergen 
and Greenland. In 
1904, again, he had 
captained a German 
hunting expedition to 
these places. 
The first mate, 
Kristian Petterson, 
had spent a season 
sealing in the Arctic 
and another (1905) as 
first mate of the Terra 
Nova, with the Fiala- 
Ziegler Expedition to 
Franz Josef Land. 
MAGNUS K. giaever Bos’n Daniel Jo- 
hannessen had had 
eight years of Polar service—one of these with Wellman in 
Franz Josef Land—and had spent two and one-half years 
with the German South-Polar Expedition. 
All these men were from Trornsoe. 
With the rest, the periods of Arctic service ranged as fol¬ 
lows: First Engineer Everson, one year; Second Engineer 
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