The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-04-11
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First Antarctic Telephone Lines.
eomm9nication was estabiished With
Hut Point through fifteen miles Of
bare wire: This telephone has already
of weather. Lieutenant Evans, Gran
n Forde, travelled to Corner Camp to
Forbes hands were badly frost-bitten,
R But are H9w FeGove erin FPaptdly. o Nth
Evans. I travelled west on Sept. is,
ascending Ferrar Glacier. We found
by stakes planted by Wright that the
northwest Of our stations. we found
part of the glacier tongue broken in
MMarch with the forge depot left by
Owing to work at the station and
the ne need OF Increasing exercise for the
t wasfer fur sdeior; SPRING n Journeys; The
Taylor. .Debenham, GRAN and Forde,
ns'a = fen Sy doyae' fo aceGiS rani,te viii H, lsaye
All plans and preparations for the
southern journey are now complete and
despite the accident Of last season we
sity of getting the utmost out Of our
remaining ponies has decided me not
to expose them to great cold. We shall
therefore start later than originally in
tended.
The motor sledge party. consisting Of
Lieutenant Evans, Bay. Lashley, and
motor sledges. dragging fuel and for
age: The motors experienced unex-
Psesed 1er a%ift1 fSinyx on nov sea ice ely where it
but We're last seen going well on the
surface of the barrier beyond the base
camp Of last season. They have; there
traction beyond question: The pony
party, consisting of myself with viii
son. Oats, Bowers Cherry, Garrard,
Keehane, will start about November 1.
INDEPENDENTLY Of the success of the
nets Ponies will be worked with
Camp with full loads and easy marches
TO One-Ton Camp and with such pres
sure as necessary thereafter. Dog
Ton Camp and help to advance loads.
Units Of food to tie foot Of BSsardmorss
sion for four men. Then with three
divisions Of fou men and twenty-one
units of provisions. 1 hope to extend
if the weather conditions onau are not a's Whoie
ly unfavorable. OF the ten remaining
ponies one is unreliable and one doubt
did health, and eager to go forward.
Owing to my decision to postpone
most advanced southerly party will be
unable to catch the Terra Nova before
she is forced to quit the Sound I'm
der 5hese e se7sn{iSo v haxi1 dgn regard gaG TO to
%cilities offered for further work.. I
have decided to maintain the station
tSs s s assG psrty ye1 Mil, p pns ba9o ra%Sai Gf
but details depend upon the date Of
our returning from our journey on
home news. and the extent Of fresh
gret. the departure Of any member, as
we have lived in the happiest social
accord.
large batch of Photographic material
to which a second year might add lit
the Of 1b= imtpertahs{e' re oWing d to R +Ss s4.
our Pole life. Plans arranged for the
scientific work of the expedition have
tirety.
November "a, latitude 81, Is S: We
left Hut Point on the eve of Novem-
night and rest during the day to give
temperatures. We reached Corner
for fa!n Sixty t9'T miles %9r1 %e siol1 eTaxf1 the t Taeta
Of the motors, then found the ma
chimes abandoned. The party a pro-
CSSucO OA"dFu DIS ulT0CIcU, were OS-
reached One-Ton Camp on the morn
ing Of the 18th. The dog teams. had
the fheE Whole ps patty aP sG proce edsd in 9ae compa any,
A days rest was given the animals at
0ne-Ton Camp, which we left on the
Of the loads the 81 heavy - surfaces RI Wsis n
limited number of animals, I decided
to march fifteen miles only every night.
aaiS d njtnis an has 50 been zen m mai int n ned
foresee It should be continued: The
ponies are going very steadily and
keeping Kss condition remarkable well.
pediency but could have travelled fur
Their. The animals have ten pounds of
cats and three pounds of oil cake
mems food supply to the Glacier, ac-
cording to program, without great diff
fculty. but should be a day or two
at latitude soM. TD,ot of p their t numbef
now Leave US; The sole cause Of the
heating of the a~ir-cooled engines. Time
did not permit of the defects being
taken in hand. The system Of propul-
is%factory. The machines dragged heavy
loads over the worst part Of the bar
rIler service and crossed several GREY
their success has been remarkable.
With the experience now gained a re-
liable tractor could be constructed that
would travel anywhere in this region
and save the sacrifice of animals. We
are building snow cairns at intervals
Of four miles to guide the homeward
parties and leaving a weeks provision
at every degree of latitude to the Bar
rier. The surface was extremely bad
and trying to the ponies up to One
Ton Camp, but has beer comparatively
good since. The greater number of the
ponies have been dragging over $50
pounds.
December 10. latitude 80 degrees Is
minutes: After the return Of the mo-
tor party from latitude 81 degrees Is
minutes we pushed teadily south,
hopeful for better weather conditions.
A second pony was destroyed at lati-
tude 80 degrees 10 minutes. a third
at latitude so degrees AS minutes, and
two more at the SD parallel. None
of these animals We're exhausted but
give food for dogs. 5 IS we i@ procee ded
the weather grew worse, snowstorms
were frequent, the sky continually
overcast and land very rarely visible.
Under these circumstances it was most
difficult to keep a straight course and
maintain steady marches. The ponies
continued to pull splendidly. The ex-
cellent condition they retained under
sever work 1 attribute entirely to
the management of Captain Oats.
In spite of delays we reached lati-
tude SO degrees "a minutes within
twelve miles Of Mount Hope on Dec.
with five ponies on the following day,
but for the Intervention of a SOUTH
erly gale which lasted four days. dur
ing which we did not sight land. al