The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-23

the most extreme southern point ever City. eI busy sy with plans for m another expeA dit.on in Seaycn Of the south poLe. Ill speaAing or the perils encoiinei. d in his recent expedition ne gives lne follow ing graphic account of the hardships uu- dergone by the explorers
 In the antarctic there is no mammal within me coast line and the traveller must ent.feIy depend upon what ne brings Ill the form of preserved food, ana preserved food packed in tlns IS, al us best. in my opinion, unfavorable. - The late zooIogist of my expedition. who gave ais lite for science In the Tar south. died chiefly because he could moi get fresh food. The antarctic night, which lasts for seventy-one days at Cape Adair, IS iong- CT than the night at the same latituor in tue north. Like an evil, sneakins spiri. the antartic night wraps the tray ..er ia it's black cold clasp. NO one wh has not faced these midnight winters lack of sunlight has upon tne nuni.l. mind. The awful monotony, the roaring silence are matters for realization ratEe' than description. Covered by snow n hut fifteen feet by trteei, We ten plo neers In the anarcuc contiaent speh' many trying days. The antarctic gales mad iaid a "hise plotting papsr over .n- little black spot wn.cn We formed O. those vast. vast whise fields. . MT. Hansen. my zoologist, became Il shortly after landing on the great anare-
  food and he walked with difficulty. al though ne suffered no pain.
 Sutferlngs III the Winter.
 As the winter grew on he grew worse. His limbs became swollen anu took last ing impr esslon rom pressure. He lost feedng in his legs. Ihe doctor applied. the electric oatt1ry. bu. no improvemeh was obtained. Several others, inciua Ing myself. found that the fiesh on oui legs also took lasting impressions iron. D. assure. but l sti.l managed 10 carr! out long siedge expeditions.
 The monotony, tde sameness durins that winter night was frghtfui. A. times, of course. Jokes passed from bunh to bunk especially during the hea, .. gales The hut in autumn. before th' snow covered 1t. shook violently, anu would undoubtedly have been blow away if We had not fastened it down by the help of our heavy anchors to which steel stays had been appned. kalHs c. stones descended on us rom the noun tain some o,0U5 feet aooVe. They drumin td on the roof and the members passe'- iocular remarks from bunk to odnii How would we fare, they asked one an other. if our hut suddenly became an air 1lometer on the roof serve as propeller and would the metal stays perenane' SCI We as guide ropes!
 Such moments were, of course, com paratiyely bright. In my opinion 1t is tn. secret of success to be able to sec the humorous points In any distress of lire IeW tra2eC-6S nave not u cOIllCdl Sltis If the eyes are there tO See IL
 inc most remarkable thing about tht anarctlc gales was that while they we.'t raging at their highest. biting and tear ing, bringing with them the hail Q; s-ones rom the mountain. the wind would suddenly cease for fully three minutes. Ine stiffness of the anarctic inGnt would prevail and l could heal the breath of tne wondering memoers ol the expedition keeping time With tn tick, tick, tick of the baroyrapn regis tering the curves of the atmospheric pressure.
 Evans Lost in the Gale.
 Then suddenly. as quickly as the gale had ceased. 1t would start again and blow if possible harder than before. Of course in winter, when the huts wcrv of the noise caused by the gale. It was only when we put our heads tnruug. Il the tunnel in the snow that the wildnes of the storm caught us with is fui power.
 We had to approach the thermometer screen by the help or rope, carrying gale lantern. Although the screen wa. only about 200 yards from the hut l lost one of my men, whose name Is Evans for more than three hours, he having let go his hold of the guide rope. l promptly ordered everybody executing me doctor out of the hut to search. l shall never forget the wildness of that experience IL was almost impossible to take one : breath. We could not go upright and
  abouts.
 Show mingled with stones flew through the air, and when, after three hours search, we at last found Evans he was in an exhausted condition.
 When We did not work at observd- tlons taken during the light time, or dur ing clear nights when the weather was calm, we played chess, cards and quar- reled-and I am pleased to say that we did quarrel. It became great scope fo1 study and I cannot but thinh tha: those leaders who return from polar ex- petitions and relate tales of how the mempers obeyed like lambs and went among each other like angels have solue- thing to hide from the light
 Grew to Hate Each Other
 T think also that the mental state of the memo eers of a polar expedition ought to be studied from d scientific view oi point as much as any other phase of the subject. Unfortunately for Us, the doctor of my exuedition suffered greatly from melanchola. so he did not himself take to a study which by reason of his pro- fession should (have fallen to him.
 Tt was difficult to do any work at the wooden table which we used in common There we were. glaring at each other with eyes at once vacant and intense. In way we hated each other. We were sick of each others company. When anyone opened his mouth we knew ex- actly what he was going to say. The music box which we took along got HIS in- tn trouble very early in the antarctic
 
 playing a tune which another one hated and the row which they started became general
 "The two Baplanders stood the ant arctic night best, perhaps. They were accustomed to the dark and cold, but even they grew melancholy during the long night. l noticed that they talked a great deal of I.apish' which we did not understand, and when in their hunks were singing either stern, monotonous Japish' hymns or some of the love songs of Finmark wherein the girls they left behind were waiting for them and rein deer were running over the large white fields.
 .'Uansen's condition gradually grew u,rse' but he did not suffer. It was on october II that he died. l had been away got a message by one of the Laps r,ho came as d courier on skie, telling me that Hansen was getting worse. son was up. but a day later he took tc lie he'd, I saw that he would not live Innp and although tho doctor thought Il ,rnnceEsary l ordered all the members out of the hut to live in tents.
 ..Tbat evening l era Nlsd into my sleep ,r1 bag worried and sad. At o'clock ;4the morning the doctor called me anC said that Hansen had not long to live Chat he wished to say good bye to ut all I then went up and sat by his bed side. ,,. |. ,,, htd h.l
 ,n isack, I told him that the irs penguin had come. He asked me to kil l. I nd be