The Forrest City times., 1912-03-15

ming of September did the temperature rise to such an extent that there was any question Of setting out.
 First Start for the Pole.
 On the Sth of September eight men with seven sledges, ninety dogs and pro- visions for four months. started. The ground was perfect. The temperature Was net bad. The next day 1t appeared that we had started too carly. as the tempera- ture of the following days fell and was kept steady between minus 90 and 6a Celsius taS and 75 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Personally. We did not saf- fer at all from this cold Our good furs protected us But with our dogs it was different matter. It would easily be seen that. they shrank from day to day and we understood pretty soon that they could not stand the long run to our de- pot al S0 degrees south.
 We agreed on returning and to wait for the arrival of spring. The provisions were cached and off We went for the hut W,tn the exception of the loss of d few dogs and q couple od frozen heels every thing was all right.
 Only i'll the middle of October spring came in earnest. Seals and birds ap- peared The temperature was steady be tween 20 and 50 Celsius eGS degrees andS6 degrees Fahrenheit. The original plan that all of us should go toward the South Pole had been changed. Five men had to do this work. while the other three were to start for the east and visit King Edward VII. Land
 
 cluded in our program but. owing te the fact that the English had not reached 1t. at least this summer. as Was their ia- tention, We agreed that the best thing to do was alse te make this trip.
 On October 70 the southern party started=fiVe men. four slcdgas hftv-twe dogs and provisions for four months everything in excellent order.
 The Journey ro tke Pole.
 We had made up our minds 10 take the fta. Ftfr in order to give ourselves and the dogs a rational training. and on the 23rd w made our depot in so degrees south. We went right ahead.
 In spite of the dense fog an error of two or three ktiometers happened once in a while but We were caught by the d4g marks and found these on e1Ir way with out difficulty
 Having rested and fed our dogs on all the seal meat they were able to eat. we started again on the 26th. with the tenn perature steadily between minus 70 and so Celsius t4 4egrces and 22 degrees be- low zero FahrenheiU.
 From the start 1t was the intention not to drive more than 90 kilemeters day. but it appeared that this Was too little for our strong willing animals At Sd degrees south we began to build cairns of d mans height. in order to have marks on our return trip. On the 3lst we reached the depot at Nj degrees and stopped there one day and fed the oogs on much pemmican as they wanted
 We reached the depot at SZ degrees on the fifth of November where the dogs for the last time got all they wanted to eat On the Sth. southward again. with daily march of 60 kilometers In order te tighten our heavy sledges. we established depots each degree of south latitude
 Like a Pleasure trip.
 The trip from & degrees to S5 degrees became pleasure trip excellent ground. fine sledging and an event Everything went like a dance.
 On the 9th We sighted South Victoria Land and the continuation of the noun tain range which Sir Ernest Shackleton | mentioned in hts chart running toward the southeast from Beardmore gazier and on the same day We reached S3 de grees and established here depot number