Scott-Hansen and Pettersen, however, were very near getting a cold bath. Having laid the mine under the floe, they placed themselves abaft with the "pram," [89] in order to haul in the string of the fuse. When the floe burst, and the Fram plunged, and the remainder of the floe capsized as soon as it became free of its 600 tons' burden, the two men in the boat were in no pleasant predicament right in the midst of the dangerous maelstrom of waves and pieces of ice; their faces, especially Pettersen's, were worth seeing while the boat was dancing about with them in the caldron. The vessel now had a slight list to starboard (0.75°), and floated considerably lighter upon the water than before, as three oak planks were clear to starboard, and somewhat more to port, with nine bow-irons clear forward. So far as we could see, her hull had suffered no damage whatever, either from the many and occasionally violent pressures to which she had been subjected, or from the recent launching. The only fault about the vessel was that she still leaked a little, rendering it necessary to use the pumps frequently. For a short time, indeed, she was nearly tight, which made us inclined to believe that the leakage must be above the water-line, but we soon found we were in error about this, when she began to make more water than ever. For the rest, she was lying very well now, with the port side along an even and rather low edge of ice, and with an open channel to starboard; the channel soon closed up, but still left a small opening, about 200 yards long and 120 yards wide. I only wished that winter would soon come, so that we might freeze securely into this favorable position. But it was too early in the year, and there was too much disturbance in the ice to allow of that. We had still many a tussle to get through before the Fram settled in her last winter haven. Our drift westward in the latter half of June and the greater part of July was, on the whole, satisfactory. I give the following observations: Date Latitude Longitude Direction ° ' ° ' of Wind June 22d 84 32 80 58 N. June 27th 84 44 79 35 N. by E. June 29th 84 33 79 50 E.N.E. July 5th 84 48 75 3 S.E. July 7th 84 48 74 7 W.S.W. July 12th 84 41 76 20 W.S.W. July 22d 84 36 72 56 N.N.W. July 27th 84 29 73 49 S.W. by S. July 31st 84 27 76 10 S.W. August 8th 84 38 77 36 N.W. August 22d 84 9 78 47 S.W. August 25th 84 17 79 2 E. by N. September 2d 84 47 77 17 S.E. September 6th 84 43 79 52 S.W. As will be seen from the above, there were comparatively small deviations towards the south and the north in the line of the drift, whereas the deviations to east and west were much greater.