The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-02-13
SCOTS ANTARCTIC
PARTY Persisted
WORLD IS SHOCKED AT DlsAs.
TER REPORTED TO SOUTH
POLAR PARTY
NUMBER OF DEAD NOT KNOWN

~ - oeHeVeo rIhat SIxty-SIX ScLen.
lists and Sailors Were Lost.-How
News of the Appalling Disaster
Was Brought.
London. News has just reached
the world that Captain Robert f.
Scott, the explorer, and an unknown
number of his companions perished III
the Antarctic while on their return
journey from the South Pole.
They reached their goal on January
IL, 1912, about month after Captain
Roland Amundsen, the Norwegian.
had planted the flag of his country
there. Then they turned back toward
the bases they had formed on their
outward journey, but were overtaken.
overwhelmed and destroyed by a biz.
zard.
News of the death of the explorers
was brought to civilization by the
captain of the Terra Nova, the ship
which had taken SCOTS expedition
to the South and which had gone again
to bring them back after the accom-
plishment of their task.
A searching expedition recovered
the bodies and records of the party,
Only a few brief bulletins were sent
from the New Zealand port of Dam
aru by the captain of the Terra Nova.
who related simply the fate of the
party and then proceeded with his
vessel for Lyttleton.
1t is believed that the disaster did
not involve all of the Scott party OF
sixty-six, but probably only Scott him
self and the four others selected by
him for the final dash to the pole
These are supposed to- be DR.. e. A
Wilson; chief of the scientific staff;
Captain L. e. G. Oates of the Innis
killing Dragons; Lieut.. H. r. Bow
ers, of the Royal Indian marine, the
commissionary officer, and Petty Off
Ger E. Evans of the British Royal
Navy, research in the Antarctic re
gions and had blazed the way for the
discovery he ultimately made.
The expedition under Captain Scott
was the best equipped that had ever
been assembled for such an adventure
1t sailed from Port Chalmers, near
Christ Church, New Zealand, on Nov
20, 1910. The Terra Nova made direct
south into Ross sea. Early in January
1911, she forced her way into McMur.
do Sound, where winter quarters were
established on Cape Evans. The mem
bers of the expedition had a very ar.
duous task in putting their stores on
shore, and the work took week
However, they were able to make
themselves very comfortable there in
houses which they had carried with
them in "knock-dowp" form. They at
once began their scientific observa
tions.
Provisions for a three years stay
in the ice regions had been taken on
board the Terra Nova and these were
placed on shore.
Captain Scott had with him twenty
Siberian ponies, thirty dogs and two
motor sleds
The ponies, dogs and motor sheds
were to be used alternately for trans.
port across the $500 miles between
the landing place and the pole.
1t was arranged to cover ten miles
daily and it is apparent that this
scheme was carried out up to the mo.
ment they reached the pole
Captain SCOTS main travelling party
was to consist of sixteen men, besides
while groups of four men
each were to return at different stages
of the journey, leaving Scott and four
others to complete the final dash to
the Pole.
This would indicate that some of |
the members of the party who had |
been left at the various bases were
not included among the victims of the
disaster and that it was they who |
to the world the fate |
Of the expedition