The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-01


 gone she Is now fortunately more fit to receive the seas, Captain Sverdrup is of the opinion that she would not have bten able to stand the voyage to Greenland in her old state, when she had only two feet of freeboard. We sighted Fair Island on July 1, but the current there was so strong that 1t took us two days to get past the Orkneys.
 The Framp in spite of her peculiarly simple rigging, really requires large crew, We number altogether sixteen men, of whom only four are sailors. There are four men in the engineroom, and six men of science, besides two landlubbers who really joined the eX- petition as "sky-runners," so it will be easily understood that ours is a curl ously mixed crew. Among the scienti- flc men are a naval officer and a caval- " officer. All, however must take their share of the work on board. It is no easy thing to manoeuvre the Fram as everything on board is of rather large dimensions, in order to be as dur able and strong as possible, so that the watch below has often to be called when sails have to be reefed etc. Scientific observation, meteorological and otherwise, as well as investigations in regard to the saltness and color of the water. etc., were begun very early on the voyage.
 Our trip across the Atlantic was ac- complished fairly well, in spite of the continuous head wind, which drove us up under the Farce Islands and Ice land. We have ridden out two storms which the Tram stood splendidly, al- though she rolled violently We have had to shift coals twice from midship aft, and all of us had to take part in this work We formed a company which, both in regard to dress and ap- pearance, reminded one of Malay cool ies.
 On July 1s we got into the ice in the neighborhood of Cape Farewell. Short ly before this we had thrown overheard several "f1oaters," or receptacles for messages. A branch of the Gulf | Stream flows to the north between Ice land and Greenland. Several of these Heaters I addressed to the Times.
 This year the Arctic current run ming along the east coast of Greenland is bringing great masses of Ice along | with it to the south. It took us two | days to force our way through, the weather during most of the time being thick and foggy. It was difficult to as- certain our exact position, as, owing to the fog, it was very seldom that we could take bearings of the land. Our confidence in the Tram increased con- siderably on seeing how well she be- haved every time she struck against the icebergs, which, of course, would i happen now and then. We had also the opportunity of admiring the ability of Captain Syerdrup as an ice-naviga- tor. It was simply marvellous to see how calmly and confidently he got through the most difficult situations. One was reminded of Sverdrups de- scription in Dr. Nansens book of how l he got the Tram out of the ice north of | Spitzbergen in 1896. The Tram and sverdrup are as one both in appearance and in understanding, While in the ice we had an opportunity of some shoot | ing for the first time. We shot six bladder-nose seals (Cystophora crista- l ta), and this made a pleasant change | in our monotonous daily life.
 On the Fist we got clear of the ice, as l we had got so far to the west that we were outside the arctic current which runs round Cape Farewell and then proceeds northwards along the western coast of Greenland Generally 1t disap- pears In sixty-four degrees north lati l tude, but this year it extends right past | the arctic circle. According to last years meteorological observations. a l favorable summer for navigation of the Davis Strait was predicted, but this as not been fulfilled. Off Cape Fare well the current was from seventy to one hundred miles wide. It brings with it drift-ice from the grtat glaciers on the east coast of Greenland, which one | summer "calves'' the ice, which then flows past Cape Farewell the following summer To distinguish it from the | ordinary fjord-ict, which is found on | the coast in the beginning of the sum- mer, this ice Is called "Storisen" fhe big ice) by the Norwegians. After 1 having lost it's speed northwards on the west coast the current sets off in a westerly direction. and joins the one which flows south from Baffin Bay. and proceeds past Labrador and the New | foundland banks. Near the arctic cir | cle we saw several icebtrgs, which had broken away from the main body of the | ice, and were drifting westWards
 Some were so large that they went aground; ont was as high as the fore mast of the Tram. We had just been taking soundings, and found we were in nineteen fathoms of water, and as only one-ninth of an iceberg is generally seen abovt water, the iceberg must as
 suredly have gone aground.
 | n,, T1,1x t6 Hn7onIy pf 1 Suhkertoppen, where we had intended | to call, but we had to abandon this idea, as the approach was compltteIy blocked | by pack-ice.
 On the evening of July 27 we arrived off Egedesminde. where we had to call. As the charts of the coast here are not very trustworthy we remained outside all night We fired several guns during the night, but we saw no signs of Els
 quimaux. The following morning we began steaming towards the shore, and about two o'clock in the afternoon we | got the pilot on board. He was half | breed his father being a Dane and his mother an Esquimau, His boat was | roWed by four Esquimaux and a girl called Sofia. The population on the coast here is much intermixed with
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