The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-11
A WINTER OF
POLAR MISERY
Three Men Who Lived for Seven
Months on Penguins and Little Else.

Three Men Who Lived for Seven
Months on Penguins and Little Else.
| All who would like to know how
three men can exist when cast away on
! the shores of polar land on the verge
of Avinter, with food enough for only a
few weeks, with no shelter excepting a
save two guns, some ammunition and a
| sail needle, may have their curiosity
satisfied in the detailed narrative which
DIR. ]. Gunnar Anderson is writing. He
will tell of the Antarctic winter of 1903
which he and two comrades spent in a
| misery OF dirt and darkness on the bleak
shore OF northern Graham Land, to the
south of South America.
Some details of the story have already
been made public by DIR. -Nordenskiold
in his recent address before the Royal
Geographical Society in London.
The three men kept life in their bodies
through the winter, but lived in great
wretchedness, and so changed were they
in appearance when daylight came that
their best friends would not have known
them. They were members of Dr. Otto
Nordenskiold's party on the steamer
Antarctic, but he did not know that any
men from that vessel were on land, and
when he met them in the spring he did
not recognize them as a part of his own
expedition until they told their names
No wonder, for they were as black as
coal from head to foot, with long black
hair hanging down over their shoulders
and black, bushy boards. The skins on
which they were travelling over the |
snow were the only thing about them I
that seemed to indicate some acquain- |
lance with civilization.
They seemed to belong TO one of the |
lower types of men who live almost III !
natural state, like the brute creation |
The dogs took fright at the forbidding |
black figures and bolted in every direc-
ton.
Late in 1902 the Antarctic was trying
to force her way through the heavy ice
to reach DR.. Nordenskiold's camp af |
Snow Hill, about $50 miles to the south
west. When If became evident that the
vessel could not reach his camp, DR..
the leader of the ship party,
decided to try to reach the explorers by
a sledge journey over the sea, ice and
land
sailor named Grunden and small stock
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of soon reaching his, friends. Sledging,
however. proved to be enormously diff
cult. and by the time the little party !
reached land their strength and re-
sources were nearly exhausted
The twilight was lengthening, the
darkness would soon fall and they knew
very well that # they tried to make the
march of 100 miles southwark and met
with any special difficulties in the un-
land they were certain to
perish There was nothing to do ex-
cept TO go into camp and exc out the
winter somehow or other. +
They had about three weeks supply
Of canned meats, bread and coffee, three
sleeping bags, a piece of tarpaulin and a
tent but no implements excepting few
knives and cooking utensils and one
needle. and nothing TO wear but their
summer clothing. The first thing to do 4
was TO provide shelter and then to Sc
cure all the game possible before dark
ness put an end TO hunting. Il
They put up their tent and piled UP ,
stones so as completely to encircle the
tent with a stone wall Over the whole
they spread the piece of tarpaulin. /,
Their abode was thus provided with
double walls; and when the snow came
hey covered their hut deep under snow,
excepting at the narrow entrance. They