 Windward arrived at Cape Flora on 25 July where Bruce found that Jackson 's expedition party had been joined by Fridtjof Nansen and his companion Hjalmar Johansen . The two Norwegians had been living on the ice for more than a year since leaving their ship Fram for a dash to the North Pole , and it was pure chance that had brought them to the one inhabited spot among thousands of square miles of Arctic wastes . Bruce mentions meeting Nansen in a letter to Mill , and his acquaintance with the celebrated Norwegian would be a future source of much advice and encouragement . 
