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During his retreat he wandered into the wildest part of the mountain before he escaped from the skirts of the storm. Other experiences read like chapters from Peary's or Nansen's records in the Frozen North, and they are just as heroic and thrilling. Yet in face of all these physical difficulties, which only the most superb courage and enthusiasm could overcome, Dr.
And when he had slept a few hours he was as lively as a cricket and did justice to the supper. Farther and farther south they continued their daring journey over ice and waves. A walrus came up beside Nansen's canoe, and tried its solidity with his tusks, nearly taking kayak and oarsman down with him to the salt depths.
"We won't go very deeply into it this morning," she was saying, "but you'll find even the surface of the subject fascinating." Then she began a rapid fire of questions to which Betty paid small attention till the sound of Ada Nansen's name aroused her. "Key, Ada?" asked Miss Jessup. The answers were supposed to indicate definite ideas. "Key hole," said Ada promptly. "Purse?" "Money."
I determined, at mid-day, to kill a big Eskimo dog and drink his blood, as I had read only a few days before in "Farthest North" of Dr. Nansen's doing, that is, if I survived the battle with him.
Eustice, rather peculiarly some people thought Ada Nansen's mother among them held the theory that school girls should spend a fair proportion of their time in study. She had small patience with the faddist type of school that abhorred "night work" and whose students specialized on "manners" to the neglect of spelling. "I dislike the term 'finishing school," she had once said.
I of the 'Original Narrative of Early American History', edited by J. F. Jameson; Fridtjof Nansen's 'In Northern Mists'; and John Fiske's 'The Discovery of America'. A number of general histories have chapters bearing on pre-Columbian discovery; the most accessible of these are: Justin Winsor's 'Narrative and Critical History of America'; Charlevoix's 'Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France' , translated with notes by J. G. Shea ; Henry Harrisse's 'Discovery of North America'; and the 'Conquest of Canada', by the author of 'Hochelaga'.
Ada Nansen's look of utter astonishment when she saw Betty come into the dining room with the rest for breakfast told those in the secret what they had already suspected. "Bobby must have heard her listening at our door last night," said Betty. "What am I going to do? Why nothing, of course! That was part of the stunt, or at least I'm going to consider it so.
Under such conditions as we have outlined we believe that your plan could be successfully carried into effect, and we should be prepared to give it our full support. The CHAIRMAN. Let all that correspondence be printed in the record. Senator KNOX. Dr. Nansen's proposition, and then the reply, Mr. BULLITT. The Nansen letter was written in Mr. Hoover's office. Nansen made the proposition.
Equally glorious, but profoundly tragic, was the splendid attempt of Professor Andrée to reach the Pole in a balloon, which followed on the heels of Nansen's enterprise. Andrée, who was a professor in the Technical School at Stockholm, had been for some years interested in the rising science of aerial navigation. He judged that by this means a way might be found to the Pole where all else failed.
So long as they were travelling they did not feel the cold, but the perspiration from their bodies froze in their clothes, so that they were encased in a hauberk of ice which cracked at every step. Nansen's wrists were made sore by rubbing against his hard sleeves, and did not heal till far on in the summer. They always looked out for some sheltered crevice in the ice to camp in.
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