Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-04-12
POLAR PERILS
TOLD BY SCOTT
British Explorer Relates Thrill
ing Narrative of Expedi-
ton in Antarctic.
ESCAPES DEATH MANY TIMES
Whole Camp Floats Away on Drift Ice
Party Falls Into Crevasse-Dogs
and Ponies Perish-Sends Word
Back as He Starts
Final Dash.
ESCAPES DEATH MANY TIMES

Final Dash.
SCOTS narrative of his explorations In
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Akaroa, New Observation-Disclosures
Pennell, commander Of the Terra Nova
of the British antarctic expedition OF
1910, which arrived here, brought with
him a long and intensely interesting
dCCOuuL u cAS "o1h LIZ SApSA -
of the expedition up to January 3 last,
written expressly for the New York
Times by Capt. Robert F. Scott, the
leader Of the expedition.
Captain Scott will remain another
year In the antarctic to complete his
important scientific expedition and
with the hope of attaining the pole.
Captain Scott relates a story Of
frightful experiences In which he n
most Of his party narrowly escaped
death; the story is plainly told, but
pictures to mems minds adventures
such as few have passed through. AT
one time Captain Scott found his camp
floating away, the playth1ng OF the
moving broken foes.
This striking story begins with the
expedition in winter quarters at Nc
Murdo sound In October, 1911. They
returned there on October 80 and rest
ed, after a most unlucky start south
ward, in which they lost most of their
dogs and Manchurian ponies, upon
which, next to his motor sledges,
Scott had placed o dependence.
Scott says:
Shortly after the departure from
Cape Evans of the party who were es-
tablishing depots for the journey
south the ice broke south OF the cape,
severing communication. Because of
the heavy weight which a to be
transported to the depots, the party
consisting of twelve men, eight ponies
and two dog teams, occupied until
January 30 in establishing the base
camp on the ice barriers near Hut
Point.
Has Narrow Escape.
"The surface Of the snow was soft.
The work was terribly hard for the
ponies and a heavy blizzard, which
lasted three days, was a further Sc
we're trial for the animals, which were.
not In good condition.
"On February 8 we proceeded south,
marching at night and resting in the
daytime. The weather vas exception
ally bad, but the surface OF the ice
improved. Nevertheless three of our
ponies which were caught in a biz
zard succumbed. On February 16 we
reached 79k degrees of latitude,
SOUTH, and there We determined to
make a depot, to leave a ton of stores
and return to the base camp, n we
did so with the dog teams.
But on the way the entire party
fell into a crevasse except Mears and
L. &c. H. Mears was in charge of the
dogs and ponies.) He and I were on
the sIedge, which was miraculously
held up on a part of a bridge over the
crevasse on which we we're travelling.
The two dog teams hung by the har-
ness and were e%xtricated with difficult
ty. Some were badly injured.
After our arrival at the camp the
storm ragged for three days. The
enormous accumulation of snow, car
rted here and there by the wind, baf-
lied all efforts that we made to shell
ter the ponies by building walls OF
snow. So we decided to return to
Hut Point, seven miles away. re-
manned behind with two others to
a v one pony which was suffering
from the blizzard. On nearing Hut
Point the others of the party encoun-
tered cracks In the ice which were
working and enlarging. Hastily they
past four in the morning they found
that the sea ice had broken all around
and that the camp was moving under
q heavy sea swell. One pony vanished
in a crack from the line where they
had been picketed. With infinite diff
Guilty we dragged the ponies, jumping