The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-06-06
THE
The Exp~ierasIon Record Broken by
h British National Expedition.

than any man Oh eaftn. excepting DIS
two companions on the journey. aud
nearly lost his lungs getting there.
That is the reason he is in San Fran
cisco on his way back to EDgland-for
his lungs, says tue Examiner of May 26.
Lieutenant Sbsckelton was a member
of the British national Antarctic expedi.
tion. which sailed for the south seas in
December, 1901, on the oak and IRON
bound ship Discovery. The ship is
still frozen in the ice near Mount Ere
bus, an active volcano in South Vic
toria, which is nearly 1000 miles direct
" south of New Zealand. and there she
will stay until another ship carries
enough explosives to blast ont five or
six miles of ice.
az cannot talk on scientific matters"
said Lieutenant Shackelton, after be
had landed from the Ventura yesterday,
'for the data gathered belongs to the
patrons of the expedition. 1 can tell
you, however, that Captain Scott. DIR.
Wilson and 1 reached the fsrthest point
south that has yet been attained by any
explorers, and We were not looking for
She pole, either. We went out on bio
logical, ~metallurgical and magnetic
work, and the short dash We made to-
wards the south pole was merely an inc
cident.
ION November 2, Captain Scott, DR..
Wilson and I left the ship in her quar-
tiers near Mount Erebus and started
south with dog sledges over the great
Ross ice barrier. Within a fortnight
our dogs commenced to die. and soon
we had none. We were compelled to
travel fifteen miles to make some five
miles progress a day. for we could go
but five miles when we would have to
go back and make another trip with the
necessary supplies.
we found that the Ross ice barrier
was bounded on the east by q great
range of mountains, with peaks from
0 1000 to Is, 900 feet high. We follow
ed the range for 5000 miles, and found
the mountains highest at the southern
most point we reached, but We could
see lower hills beyond. We were COM
PEELED to keep : the ice field, for the
mountains were cut up with great ifs
sures that we could not cross. The
new land we named King Edwards
Land. 1t will never figure in the
schemes of land boomers, for it con-
tains no vegetable life except a few
MOSES. Another peculiar feature OF
the Antarctic is that as OOH as you get
away from the ice fields of the coast
you find no animal life of any kind
not even a bird.
Can Reach The Pole.
1--WE worked away until our dogs
were all dead and u provisions were
commencing to get short, and then We
started on the return trip. We reached
the latitude of 80 degrees IL minutes
south, in longitude 166 degrees 4C
minutes east. Twenty days from the
ship I strained myself and suffered &
hemorrhage of the lungs but managed t.
get back all right. though we were on
Of provisions. We had taken supplies
enough for eighty.four days and wer'
out ninety-four days, and the mel
aboard the ship were getting ready t.
send ont an expedition to search for III
when we appeared.
"There was absolutely no reason VIII,
we could not have reached the pole !
we had been equipped for it, but WI
took only twenty-five Siberian dog
when we left England. When we lief
the ship we did not expect to go as fa
as we did. and had no means of carry
ing the necessary supplies il We had j y
tended trying to reach the pole. Any
way, we broke the record by 27O miles
and saw enough to convince us tina
the Antarctic does not contain an archi
pelago, but q continent.
"The great ice barrier over which WI
travelled is bounded on the east by thu
high mountain range ! have mentioned
and on the west by a range of low hills
The barrier is about 500 miles wide.
"We came neal losing a lot Of oul
men. A party was out about three
miles from the ship when a heavy
snowstorm came up. In trying to gel
back to the ship they got on the slope
of a great ice cliff ~overhanging the SEE
and started to slide. One nan went
into the sea and was lost, but the other
ten managed to stop themselves by
sticking their knives into the ice. One
of them was lost in the SNOW and slept
from Tuesday until Thursday. He had
been given up for dead when he return.
ed to the ship without even a FROST Bit
ten finger.