Transcriber’s Notes: Italics are enclosed in _underscores_. Other notes will be found near the end of this eBook. OUR POLAR FLIGHT [Illustration: BEFORE WE LEFT WE PLANTED OUR NORWEGIAN FLAG] OUR POLAR FLIGHT _The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight_ BY ROALD AMUNDSEN LINCOLN ELLSWORTH AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE EXPEDITION [Illustration] NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1925 COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY The Quinn & Boden Company BOOK MANUFACTURERS RAHWAY NEW JERSEY CONTENTS PAGE PART I: THE EXPEDITION 1 BY ROALD AMUNDSEN PART II: THE AMUNDSEN-ELLSWORTH POLAR FLIGHT 101 BY LINCOLN ELLSWORTH PART III: THE NAVIGATOR’S TASK 141 BY LIEUT. HJALMAR RIISER-LARSEN PART IV: REPORT ABOUT N 24 FROM THE START UNTIL WE JOINED N 25 AND ITS CREW ON THE 26TH MAY 219 BY L. DIETRICHSON PART V: WHILST WE WAIT 253 LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF FREDRIK RAMM FROM MAY 21ST TO JUNE 18TH PART VI: THE WEATHER 341 BY JAKOB BJERKENS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Before We Left We Planted our Norwegian Flag _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Lincoln Ellsworth 2 The Directors of the King’s Bay Coal Company, Messrs. Brandal and Knutsen 3 Sailmaker Rönne 3 “Fram” Moored to the Ice at the Edge of King’s Bay 22 Unloading 22 The Games on May 17th 23 The Planes Were Put Together Near the Coal Company’s Workshops 23 The Crew of N 25: Riiser-Larsen, Amundsen, Feucht 38 The Crew of N 24: Ellsworth, Dietrichson, Omdal 38 Photograph of Amundsen’s Machine Taken in Flight 39