Arizona republican., 1904-09-10

Late in 1902 the Antarctic was try ing to force Qer way through the heavy ice to reach pr. NordenskiOld's camp at Snow Hill, about 150 miles to the southwest When it became evident that the vessel could not reach his camp, Dr. Anderson, the leader Of the ship party, decided to try to reach the explorers by a sledge journey over the sea. tce 2Hd land.
 lie took with him MT. Duse and sailor nar1ed Grunden and a small stock of supplies and set out with higl hopes Of soon reaching his friend. SIedging. however proved to be en- ormously difficult. and ty the time the little party reached land their strength and resources were nearly exhausted.
 The twilight vas lengthening, the darkness would soon fall and they knew very well that if they tried 70 make the march Of 100 miles south ward and met with any special difficult ties in the uHtraversed land they were certain to perish. There was nothing to do except to go into camp and eke out the winter somehow or other. They had about three weeks supply of canned goods, bread and coffee. three sleeping bags, a piece of tarpau lin and few knives and cooking uten- sns and one needle and nothing 70 wear but their summer clothing. The first thing to do was to provide shelter and then to secure all the game pos sibls before darkness put an end to ! hunting.
 | They put up their tent and piled up stones so as completely to encircle the ! nit o ha vr-b0 0 In | they spread the piece Of tarpaulin. 1 Their abode was thus provided with | double walls: and when the snow came i they covered their hut deep under the 1 snow, excepting at the marrow en- trance. They were thus able through out the winter to keep an average temperature of only a little below the freezing point.
 | Within a few miles there were plenty ! of penguins waiting to be shot, and by the tune the winter night had fairly fallen they had killed and frozen about | 400 of these birds Penguins are not good eating. and the art of cookery, as 1 practiced in the Antarctic regions, has never made their flesh very palatable.
 But they were the staff of life of the l three men that winter. eked out by a l llOuLulul or two Ol IIedu edCn udN, all occasional bite of preserved meat anl the flesh of seals that were killed now and then and whose chief utility was to supply oi! for fuel. Seal blubber was piled in a large meat tin and set to | blazing and smoking, and it was thus that the skins. clothing, and seaIskins worn by the men were turned densely black.
 Every one has heard of the revul-
 sion of stomach and nerves from which men suffer when they try to eat a quail a day for thirty days. When men fall
 Ter at such Q task, we can imagine that
 nothing but the fear of death would
 drive them to eat the coarse apt! greasy penguin every day for seven months. The feat was accomplished and it shows what men can do when
 necessity drives.
 But the hardest part of their lot
 after all, was the protracted confine ment during the long stormy winter. Seal blubber was too scarce to be used excepting when the meals were cooked and so for days at a time the three men curled up in their sleeping bags, with nothing to read if they could have seen to read. and nothing to do but listen to the bowling polar storm.
 It was hard fate, but they came out of i. in marvellous fashion, even