The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-23
SUFFERS HARDSHIP IN
 SEAkCH Ut SOUTH POLE
PerilS Encountered by (. E. BOrchgreylnk, Who Reached Most Extreme Southern Point Ever
 Gained by EXplOreT.

 ms grave on the top or Cape Adair. some
 thousand feet up. to the ieeward or i large powder wnere we had been to- gether one happy Sunday, and where
 had taken a pnotoSraph of him. Ihe DeaIn or hansen. The next day at 3 o'clock he dled. conscious the very last. About ! quarter of an hour before he died he made joke on my inquiry as to wheth. CT or not he had any pain he answered in, the negative and said that he had l only tickling sensation In his left arm. | He felt, he said. as if he were going on long journey and told me that ne hao felt worse while saying good bye Tn
 setting out on the expedition than now, when he was going to part with life for eyef.
 "rt en he died. and a gloom lay over tho camp, but spring was on and the bless ing of work at hand, and then the pen- | guins themselves, with their Interesting | habits, cheered us much and made us ! bury the sorrow. although we could not | forget.
 The perguins, especially those which l inhabit the continent in great numbers. remind one of human community. Tn l endless strings they walked after eacn other. With their black backs tney | looked at d distance on the snow GNt | a comical Liliputian funeral procession Il When they discovered IS they came |. l 70 us not knowing the blood thirst civilization. They walked around us, C idently taking down their zoolog-c2l mo-. about us and taking us for a new sor, ..; penguin,
 They came back to their nesting places at the cape. where their old nests con sisting Of small pebbles, werc still iying about from the previous 3ear. aithoug" some what disturbed by the heavy gales 'On warm days the male bird stoo erect in his nest. his beak toward th zenith, uttering series of hoars' screams. the female listening attentivel! | 70 his antarctic love song. They had a busy time love making and nest I .r both of which occupations they wei | ztud.ed most attentively by my oacheio | staff.
 We ate the penguins from the tim | they first came They were, however very blubbery. We boiled them hrst. th-i | ae roasted them and then we called them | :,tarmigan and managed to eat theE l with better relish. They were fresh fooa | It least Then the eggs, which were iald | in the beginning of Novemoer, were. | course welcome. myself dt tsoured fourteen of these eggs the first day. n|, l withstanding the fact that they wr.' | twice the size of an ordinary duck | egg.
 l T shall not forget the moment when II l was announced to me that the penguins l had laid their first eggs. I told the doe | tor who generally looked after the men | that We should have eggs the next fi,'"t | ing. He. however, implored me hot l at the eggs nor tC let any Of the mem l hers eat them just then. He was ma" | irg stGdy of us al the time tapping | for blood making miCroscorieal inVest- | gaticps thereof, taking our pulse oy u | pulsometer and was afrad thas eSS | .,a very thing we required, would up v our health and thus spoil ms Valuaoie III | vestigatons. Tt was an enthusiasm which l apprtt | cfated as highly as he himself appreci- i t,z flaa | ..'rue young penguins, which appeareu
 il month after the first egg was laid | looked like little bags sitting on tue | ground We tried also to cat these bu | they were very oily and made us sick. l The best food supplies which the an . | arctic traveller has are the seals and [ fish The fish constitute one or the mo l remarkable discoveries We made ''' | more than eleven varieties Of them a | absolutely new to science. The seal flesh | Is coarse, but l ate 1t raw ana occasio,'- | ally drank the blood from the hole mad | by the seal knife. It Is very oily. espe- | cialIy after passing through the lay'r nf hiubber, which is often more ,nan 1 :hree inches thick. but l regard It as : l great remedy against disease , | T only wish that the late Zoologis. l uansen who, 1 am convinced. died oi | heri-berI had been able to eat raw seal
 Odd Way of Catching Fish. | ..mhe nsh were delicious. Strange to | say we never caught any oN paI' >, always got them by means of the .H1' l wegian pilk, an aplication like prisI' sI. I little fish. of tin. to which two ho " | have been fastened at the nose r,,aI. W. nodded this appliance In wooden car t,r, ge' | shapes in which We poured meite9 a nn' 1 | This. fastened to line. was moVeu rap | ,aIv mn and down in the water
 "Al fish are curious. and presu'n
 that the antarctic fish is even m more ,,e.
 than the arctic, not having seen sS ma | wonders of mems handiwork, oo W | hooked these fish easily. ii s,ne ol 'a r | Laps' caught as many as hiS Ill "' 1 hour. + try eatin. | them I suggested that as the nsh i,iis" | he noisonous We ought to dra~ io's ,i h l determine who should eat the ifst 1 The men agreed. but when tha hIst | anneared on our wooden table We '' 1 started to eat at once .h, ,,,,,,,.. l "I have often been asked NnE W. | sbou,d not join in arctic eNploT1.ioi'SS a., vi | cheer the members during the loms. u"s
 months The plan would, Of course, Iocp p' | imnracticahe because women are .,H,ti n'r
 ,i,tpi ,nst in i, inc necessary physical streng'L | and would become a burden lhsteau oi | bnIn to the explorer. All the sahie
 may say that the absence o1 thein toho,. to
 nreat degree accounts for the meIancl'ol: ll,.., M Ihich often takes hold Of menpers !" I Nfr.Wn1