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three years old and leaked considerably.
Start on the Nimrod.

The explorer then told Of the start from
England in August. 1907, after the queen
had given the party a flag to hoist at
the south pole OF the arrival at New
Zealand and of the subsequent departure
in January, 1908, for the antarctic. On
board the Nimrod were nine dogs, ten
ponies. a motor car, thirty-seven men
showed a map of the antarctic region on
which were indicated the various points
which had been reached by other ex-
plorers and by himself.
That star indicates the south pole and
now that you have seen ii. you have seen
just as much of the south pole as any
one ever saw, said Sir Ernest dryiy,
amid a general laugh.
At the very outset the expedition ran
into bad weather and high seas that well
nigh wrecked the little Ninrod Finally
the pancake ice in Ross sea was en-
tered. and the Nimrod made its way
through the countless slabs Of floating
ice. Then the expedition traced its way
through more than thousand icebergs,
till it came to the great Ice wall, 40
miles long and go feet high They went
to the east along this wall till they came
to narrow lane between the wall and
mass of floating ice. This lane they
entered and steamed along for some dis
tance. wind rose and blew the mass
toward the ice wall. If the Nimrod had
been caught in the narrow lane she would
have been ground to pieces like a frag-
ment of glass between two millstones.
I'VE escaped by about fifty yards" said
Sir Ernest
The party established winter quarters
twenty-three miles north of the point
which Scott. the explorer, had reached.
The stores were hauled up the high cliffs.
Scaled Active Volcano.
ION February %. 1908. 1 sent the MINI
cd C}r
leaking badly There were fifteen men
left 1 detailed six of them to scale
Mount Erebus. a great active volcano. Dur
ing the trip to the summit one OF the
men had his feet 50 badly frozen that he
finally had to have one great toe cut on
But ., he has it still for he keeps it in a
standing the great pain which he suf-
fered. he stuck to his work. His con-
duct was a piece with that of all the
rest of the party.
1.-THE cliffs in that part of the antartic
are so steep that, as one man described
them. you could jump off the top of a
cliff and the first land you would hit
would be the water.
.tOn March 10. 1908. a party Of English
men stood on the summit OF Mount Ere
bus and looked into the active crater Of
the volcano"
Sir Ernest showed a remarkable picture
of the party standing on the summit.
H pIItui GU tHc Sicdt CAatCl oAOW-SOs-
cred, with the steam coming from it. He
explained that the crater was half
mile wide and probably $50 feet deep.
when the party started down the
mountain they rolled their provisions
ahead of them and then slid down them
selves. The consequence was they ar
rived at the quarters with great appetites
and no trousers to speak off, said Sir
Ernest
He said that from the beginning OF the
trip into the far south meteorological
observations had been taken and recorded
once every two hours until the party re-
turned home
Scientists Were Busy.
He told of the work which had been
done by the scientists OF the party. OF
the discovery Of the antarctic bear. which
is microscopic. and the only bear found
In those regions. April q the sun dis
appeared and the long night. lasting more
than four months began. Sir Ernest de-
scri5ed the life in camp. life OF prepa-
ration for the dash to the south. when
the southern summer came. The Man
churan ponies were exercised and the
men worked and ate their fill.
IF any one ever became disguised with
the rest of the party, all he had to do
was TO go outside and walk it OF. There
we're 100000 square miles OF land.
continent larger than Australia, in which
he might walk and not meet any one bus
himself declared Sir Ernest.
Prof David was the politest man in
the party He was the politest man