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His famous ship, the Fram,' was - built to his own desi gn

and under his own supervision to withstand the pressure of the ice, and when she was held, fast in .the pack she drifted almost exactly along the course • which he had predicted. His book, Farthest 'North; is one of the most satisfactory of the many records of Polar exploration. Well ,befOre- the'ena of last century he had becOme a hero to every boy and to everyone with the heart of a boy, but the present century was 'to make him heroic in a different measure. He became one of the most devoted apostles of the League of -Nations. No figure was better known or more revered at, Geneva than the representative of Norway, whose separation from' Sweden, by' the way, he had done a great deal to bring about. •

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