The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-03-19

work, while the other three were to
start for the east and visit King Ed
ward VII. Land.
This last mentioned trip was not
included in our programme, but, ow-
ing to the fact that the English had
not reached it, at least this Summer,
as was their intention, we agreed that
the best thing to do was to make this
trip.
On Oct 20 the southern party start
ed-fve men, four sledges, ffty-two
dogs, and provisions for four months
everything in excellent order
The Journey to the Pole.
We had made up our minds to take
the first part of the trip as easily as
possible, in order to give ourselves and
the dogs a rational training, and on
the 23d we made our depot in so de-
grees south. We went right ahead.
In spite of the dense fog an error
of two to three kilometers happened
only once in a while, but We were
| caught by the fagmarks, and found
these on our way without difficulty.
Having rested and fed the dogs on
| all the seal meat they were able to
| eat, we started again on the 26th,
| with the temperature steadily be-
| tween minus 20 and 80 Celsius a de-
grees and % degrees below zero Fab
renheit).
| From the start it was the intention
not to drive more than 80 kilometers
day, but it appeared that this was too
| little for our strong, willing animals.
At 80 degrees south we began to
build snow cairns of mans height,
| in order to have marks on our return
| trip. On the 31st We reached the de-
pot at 81 degrees, and stopped there
one day and fed the dogs on as much
pemmican as they wanted.
| We reached the depot at 81 de-
| grees on the 5th of November, where
the dogs for the last time got all they
| wanted to eat. On the 8th, southward
again, with a daily march of so kilo-
| meters
In order to tighten our heavy sledges
| we established depots at each degree
Of south latitude.
Like a Pleasure Trip.
The trip from 50 degrees to SO de-
grees became a pleasure trip-excel-
lent ground, fine sledging, and an even
temperature. Everything went like a
| dance.
On the 9th we sighted South Vic
toria Land and the continuation Of
the mountain range which Sir Ernest
Shackleton mentioned in his chart al
running toward the southeast from
the Beardmore Glacier and on the
same day we reached SO degrees and
established here Depot No. 4. On the
18th we made the interesting discov-
cry that the Ross Barrier terminated
in blight toward the southeast at sc
degrees south latitude and 1853 de-
grees west longitude, formed be-
tween the southeast mountain range
running from South Victoria Land and
a range on the opposite side running
! in a southwesterly direction-proba-
kbly a continuation of King Edward
lVII. Land.
On the 18th we reached "a degrees
where we established depot; on the
18th, we were at IS degrees, where
also, we made a depot.
FROM our Winter quarters, FRAN
helm" .78 degrees 38 minutes south
latitudes we had been marching due
south. On the 18th of November, al
IS degrees, we arrived at place
where the Yand and barrier were con
nected. THIS was done without any
great difficulty. The barrier here
rises in undulations to about utSS600 go feet
Some few big crevices indicated tht
limited boundary.
Here we made our head depot, tax.
ing provisions for sixty days on
sledges, and leaving thirty days' pro-
visions ON the spot
A Difficult Climb.
The land under which we lay and
which we now had to attack looked
quite imposing. The nearest sum
mits along the Barrier had a
height from 1000 to 10000 feet, bu.
!. several others further south were Is,
, 900 feet or more.
) The next day We began the climb
The first part of it was an easy task
light slopes and well-filled mountain
sides. 1t did not take a long time
for our willing dogs worked their way
up. Further up, We met with some
: small but very steep glaciers. Here
we had to harness 20 dogs to each
. sledge and take the four sledges In
two turns. In some places it was sc
steep that it was difficult enough te
use our skis.
Some big crevices forced us from
time to time to make detours. The
first day we climbed 1000 feet, the
next day mostly up some small glaci
eers, camping at height Of $500 feet
The third day we were Obliged to ge
down on mighty glacier, "Axel Hei
berg's Glacier" which divided the
coast mountains and the mountain:
/ further south.
The next day began the longest par
: of our climb. Many detours had to be
t made in order to avoid broad cracks
: and open crevices. These were appar
: emily mostly filled up. as the glaciers
: in all probability had long ago stopped
: moving, but we had to be very careful
: never knowing for certain how thicl
: was the layer that covered them
Our camp that night lay in very D.
turesque surroundings at height OF
l 5000 feet. The glacier here was mar
q rowed in between the two 5000 feel
high mountains, the "Fridtiof Nan
e sem and the Don Pedro CHRISTOPHER