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...served as food for the survivors. Nor were the chances of death by starvation the only perils to face. As a little side issue of the story, Nansen relates that on one occasion, as he was hanling his kayak up to the edge of an ice-floe he heard a noise behind him and turning saw his companion on his back, with a bear over him. Johansen had the bear by the throat, and quietly called to his commander, "You must hurry up if you don't want to be too late." They had fresh bear meat for some days...
...Melville then recounted informally his experiences in the Arctic regions. He is the only surviving officer of the ship Jeanette, that made its memorable expedition to the north in 1879. The ship was caught fast in the ice-floe and drifted north-west for twenty-two months. At the end of this time the ship was five hundred miles from Siberia, the nearest land, and was so badly crushed bp the ice that it had to be abandoned. The retreat to land was full of hardship. The men were weighted down with baggage, and progress over the uneven surface...