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avoid the crevasses, we stopped over the night with these
good natives. They had never heard of Andrée or seen
any traces of him. Our story of Andrée’s flight to the
far north was too wonderful to be true, but when Mr. Frænkel,
in the clear night, sent up a toy-balloon to illustrate his
story, their doubts were changed into wonder and fear,
believing that we were some kind of great Shamans, who
are held by them to be capable of flying through the air.
The astonished natives were talking all night about that
wonderful “flying through the air”, and in the middle of
the night they awoke our interpreter, Mr. Torgersen, and
asked him: “What did those young men do up there in
heaven, whither they flew with their balloon? Did they
want to visit the great Tangara (the highest god)? Or
were they going to see the northern lights” (which in the
picturesque Yakut language are called “the sea-fishes
playing”)? Mr. Torgersen explained to them that the three
young men wanted to come to a remarkable country
somewhere far away to the north. Many people having
made unsuccessful attempts to get there in ships, with
dog-sledges, or on foot, these young men wanted to fly
there, etc., etc. “Wonderful! wonderful!” mumbled the
natives, as we dropped off again to sleep.
From this camp, situated about Lat. 73° 55′ N., near the
mouth of Katanga Bay, we took a south-westerly direction
over a flat tundra with many lakes and marshes. The
reindeer which we got here were unusually fine and strong,
and our caravan sped along over the desert of ice like a
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