Show Nn Nt nenn nn predictions nearly everything nansen predicted about his journey has come true H sa d he expected to cross the unknown polar urea area and he has har done it he tore told exactly the general direction in which his ship would drift while fast fait in the ice but it Is ii not certain that he h cor really assigned the cause ol of this drift 0 nansen invented the model of the frami fram making mailing her hull round and slip pery like an eel with no corners or 0 sharp edges for the ice to seize upon she ii 1 the stron strongest gent vessel ever used in arctic exploration asserts mcclunes mcclures McC lures magazine he said that pressure would simply lift her on the ice and so her bottom near the keel was wa made almost flat in order that she might not capsize capille while on the ice surface and her screw and rudder were alto also ingeniously protected the many experts who said her design would not save gave the frann fram from instant destruction were mistaken for she met these resistless ice pressures and they merely lifted her out of her cradle and nd she rested safely on the surface cur tace nansen Nan Ben said that owing to the proba ble predominance of water in the far north he lae expected to find finai there higher temperatures than along alone the north cent ot of asia this remarkable prediction has been fu fulfilled the lowest temperature observed on the fram was degrees fahrenheit while further south couth in the kara sea 63 degrees and at the mouth of the lena river 94 degrees have been registered |