Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-02

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The Terra Nova brought a story OF
frightfuI experiences in which Captain
Scott and most Of his party narrowly
escaped death; the story is plainly told
but pictures to mems minds adven-
lures such as few have passed through.
At one time Captain Scott found his
camp floating away, the plsything 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 rested
after a most unlucky start southwark
in which they lost most of their dogs
snd Manohurian ponies upon which.
next to hts motor sledges. Scott a
placed most dependence. Scott says:
Communication ON shortly After De-
parture.
Shortly after the departure from Cape
Evans OF the party who were estaDlsnllE
south of the cape. severing communication;
Because OF the heavy weight Wnlcn nau
to be transported to the depots the parIs,
consisting of twelve men, eight ponies
and two dog teams occupied until Januafy
90 in establishing the base camp on the
Ice barriers near Hut , Point T. soft The
work was terribly hard for. the ponies.
and a heavy blizzard. which lasted LOT
f for the oa snims as which We're not IN good
on February s we proceeded sonth.
time. The weather was exceptionally pad'
nevertheless, three OF our PONIES, VII VII
On February 16 we reached 79i5 degrees
az latitude south, and there we deterinlIlea
TO make a depot to leave a ton OF az go
and return to the base camp. Wo od
"snt on the way the entire party fell into
:. creyasse except Mears and l.. y II
Mears was in charge of the dogs and
ponies). He and j were on the sieuss.
which was miraculously held up on q
which we were travelling. The two dog
teams hung by the harness and We're sH-
treated with difficulty. Some We're pauiy
injured.
Remains behind TO Save Pony.
After our arrival at the camp the storm
ragged for three days. The enormous &C
inTnnlation Of snow, carried here. and
there bv the wind, bafied all efforts we
made to shelter the PONIES 3y rnt,,1,3i
10 Hut Point, seven miles away. re-
NAMED behind with two others 10 sake
one pony which was sunering RON ea.s
Of the party encountered cracks IN tis
lee which We're working ana eniargniis.
Hastily they marched south tonr tbst
~ ssa ice had broken ali around and
that the camp was moving under q neaEy
sea swell. One pony vanished n az = c haeis
picketed. With infinite dihiculty We
dragged the ponies, jumping from Zoe 70
noe. toward The barrier. but found that 1t
was impossibie to climb that ice wall. :.
The swell was churning up the ice enc
crushing the heaviest foes against the
eventually hoisted himself up the barrier 3
surface by wedging his ski stick IN a
crack.
Forty Degrees below Zero.
on March 10 the geological party re-
turned. bringing our number up to sixteen:
The western party had passed six weeks
In the survey of the dry valley of the
lower Ferrar and Kettlitz glacier regions
Meantime the depot arrangements for the
coming season had been completed. The
temperature on the barrier had fallen TO
minus 40. Ice had again formed over the
sea. but strong winds drove 1t north. Huge
lAnd-iee falls on the slopes of Mount Ere
bus prevented the possibility of returning
10 Cape Evans, but because the bays We're
freezing + decided to reach that station
over the sea Ice.
With eight companions ] started on
Ap pr,l = a InSd t5 5saS SsSa s GSps n Hva ~ . Hs
men. I had left there was good, except
that we had lost the nine remaining
everyone was FUZZY occupied with the
duties OF the station, with scientific work
and in exercising the animals that were
left TO us. however, 4 OfBdIl1tu ii cEACS
of lectures. To divert ourselves we played
football, a rather frigid sport. The re-
manning animals improved in condition
steadily. In June, which is midwinter,
several of us started on a sledge journey
TO Cape Crozier to observe the Incubation
of the emperor penguins at their rookery
The temperature was then minus 20.
The party spent three days in a snow hut
behind a land ridge on the slopes of Mt.
Terror to avoid q storm and experienced
great difficulty in reaching the rookery, as
the twilight was very dim. Few birds
were found there, but they had begun to
lay eggs, which should give considerable
information about the embryology OF birds.
Party Marched by Might.
We left Hut Point on November 2,
marched at night, resting in the daytime
and gave the ponies the benefit of the
warmer day temperature. We followed the
track of the motors sixty miles, then found
the machines abandoned on account of the
heavy surfaces. i decided to march fifteen
miles only every night, and maintained this
pace for eight nights, when we found the
motor party which had gone before waiting
for us IN latitude so. They disabused my
mind as to the cause of abandoning the
AWAY with the