The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-03-15

right.
Only in the middle Of October
Spring came in earnest. Seals and
birds appeared The temperature was
steady between minus 20 and 80 Gel
sius a degrees and - degrees below
zero Fahrenheit)
The original plan that all OF us
should 90 toward the south had been
changed Five men had to do this
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-
1 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 five 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
poss'bi'' IN oroe' 10 give ou, SCI - ', ~
49, aaa wa ,,,oda onr denot in so de-
oroes south We went right ahead.
In spite of the dense fog an error
of TWO 10 three kilometers happened
only once i'm a while, but we We're
caught bv The fasmarks. and found
tbe.a an cur way without difficulty.
/ IIovirg rastad and fed the dogs on
all fine seal meat they were able TO
eat. We started aGain on the 26th,
with tn" temperature steadl!N ue'
tween minus 20 and 30 Celsius "a ue-
grees and - degrees below zero an
renheiu.
From The start ii was the intention
mot 10 drive more than 50 kilometers a
day. but il appeared that this was TOO
little for our strong willing animals,
/ At 50 degrees south We began TO
build snow cairns of a 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
pemmcan as they wanted
-.at.5 ,bo dano+ or 50 do.
-. -, 49, ~ of Toran,ber whore
49,, .1oo. far .ho 1os+ time oot all they
- - ~, .ho Sch sou+bvard
,Ia;,, ,.t.r - ao;I,. r,orcb of IN ti1o.
80, r7',-,,, " ''''
''l ~, andor o,iah+or orr heavy s,adges
go o,,ati;,had donotS ~ oacb daoree
of sou+h 1atitnde
,uLo p,..eu,. Trim
co .,.a,.. - GO A.
lie UP ''o'n - ue9. W., 49,. a,
SIees oeO",is q p,o -. 'f 80
ens so",,.,, II t,.arvtbin@ Wont like a
80
'' w. .ho OH wa s;ohtod South Viz.
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W.. W. :" 1 I,". $50 u.b;oh Civ Frneet
. ', antienod IN bis obort &c
.a,,,ana no sor+haos+ from,
., p.'''i ps,.s 5G ciaoiar and IN tho
49,. '', ,,.>, roaobad 60 dngreas and
60 -q horo nana+ "a On tho
11tb n,a r,ado tho intoresting dfscov.
ar,. that rho Ross Barrier terminated
/ in q hight toward the southeast at Sc
degrees south latitude and 1913 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 southwesteriy dlreeuon-proba
bly, a continuation OF King Edward
VII. Land,
On the 18th We reached 81 degrees
where we established a depot; on the
! 10th we were at So degrees, where
also, we made a depot
/ From our Winter quarters. Fran.
helm" IS degrees 3S minutes south
latitude. We had been marching due
south. On the nth OF November. at
S5 degrees. We arrived at a place
where the land and barrier were con-
nected This was done without any
great difficulty. The barrier here
rises in undulations to about 500 feet.
Some few big crevices indicated the
limited boundary
Here We made our head depot TAX,
ing provisions for sixty days on
7 sledges, and leaving thirty days pre-
visions on the spot
A Difficult Climb.
Tho land under which we 1av ond
n.hiat We now. had - a++oo1, iool,ad
-,
go. ,Iao e., pon,.ia,, ta
height from oOo n 10 OOO feet hnr
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