The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-16

/ degrees and 10 degreeS) below zero
fahrenheit. Personally we did net
suffer at all from this cold. Our good
furs protected us. But with our dogs
1t was a different matter. 1t could
easily be seen that they shrunk from
day to day, and We understood pretty
soon that they could not stand the
long run to our depot at so degrees
1 south.
| We agreed on returning and to wait
for the arrival OF spring. The provis-
Ions were cached and off we went for
the hut. With the exception OF the
loss OF few dogs and couple Of
frozen heels everything was all right.
{, Only in the middle of October spring
came in earnest Seals and birds APP
peared. The temperature was steady
between 20 and 80 celsius (6S degrees
and Sc degrees fahrenheit).
| The original plan that all of us
should go toward the south had been
changed. Five men had to do this
work. while the other three we're to
| start for the east and visit King Ed
ward VII land. This last mentioned
trip was not included in our pro-
gram, but owing to the fact that the
..neiisn ntu NY reacneu ~ =. ieasl
enis summer, as was lheil inle.ieion'
ena. me pes. .hiiis " W
was also to make this trip.
On Ocober 20, the southern party
started, nve men, four sledges, fifty
two dogs, and provisions for four
Aiioal1s' eSS4s sAiEs IN e&cefene
o'uei'
Tho Journey to tho Pole.
We had made up our minds to take
the first part OF the trip as early as
possible In order to give ourselves
and the dogs a rational training, and
on the GARD We made orr denot In 20
daoroas so,+b W. want rirht eba,d
uesiecS SoutA. we went risnl aneao'
/, In spite OF the dense fog an error
| OF two tn three kilomeeers hanpened
49, I, ~ ~. aa,,oh.
hn Az ea~man,s, 80 - 49, -
~ ma n,,tha,,. ,,asa,,tr
-, ~. =, -. 20
- soa, .e .ney aD'o ~
eat, we STARTED again on the z6tn,
with the Temperature steadily between
niprs On ana On oa,si,s n dagraas
40 ..I...N
anu 70 osieeS peione @io, idni enneitj.
from the start IL was the intention
not to drive more than 80 klometers
day, but 1t appeared that this was
too little for our strong, willing ami
mails. At 80 degrees south we began
to build snow cairns OF mans height
| In order to have marks on our re-
turn trip. On the 31st we reached
the depot at 81 degrees. and stopped
there one day and fed the dogs on as
much pemmican as they wanted.
We reached the depot at SO degrees
on the 5th OF November. where the
dogs for the last time got all they
l wanted to eAf- On the BIB. southwark
- 49, ~ = e~a's n'aScn y y Ali'
"a order - iisht our heavy saedxs
- sStMblisfed dspotA - each dctkrs
X ss4@A
Ike ssue Trip.
Inc trip from 90 ~ % oes rees y
came . pressure Trip eAceiien. sio'lll'
4S 80 u.. :. E, - ~ -.
On the 9th. we sighted South Vi,
toria land and the continuation OF tn
mountain range which SIT Ernes
rnn,,a .awa v .hs santh ,s frasI
the Rearsmora glacier ana on me
same day we reached SO degrees and
| established here depot No. 4. On the
18th we made an interesting discovery
that the Ross barrier terminated in
blight toward the southeast at SO
degrees south latitude and 1853 degrees
west longitude, formed between the
southeast mountain range running
from South Victoria land and range
on the opposite side running IN
southwesteriy direction, probably
continuation or King EDWARD WI
land.
On the 18th we reached "a degrees
where we established depot on the
10th we were at 90 degrees, where
also, we MADE a depot.
From our winter quarters FRANZ
helm, rs degrees 80 minutes SCUM
latitude, we had been marching que