The Mena weekly star., 1913-11-13
AS CAPT. SCOTT
 TOLD OF DEATH
The Explorers Diary Given to the WOrld-Terrible Suffering Caused Party to Lose Hope but De-
 cided Against Suicide.

London, Nov. 7.-The autobio- graphy of group of men who day by day saw certain death approach ing. yet did not fear to meet it, was given to the world yesterday. It is Captain Scott's Latest Expedition, published in two handsome vol umes. They contain the diaries of the explorer and his followers stories of hope, of the hardships of the terrible cold and snow, of sick ness, of perseverance, of disaster, disappointment and death.
 The Strongest Fell First.
 The petty officer, Mr. Evans, the strongest man of them all, fell first Captain ScOtt's diary relates. Evans hands were frozen and his suffering made him Respondent. Then came the collapse of Oates, whose illness and suffering, while saddening, proved a severe hind rance to the others of the band.
 Things were bad enough with the death of these two men, but stumb- ling on the information of Amund- sens triumph in reaching the pole ahead of him completely disheart- ened even Captain Scott.
 ScOrned Suicide.
 They were ready for anything then. Even suicide was discussed, the captains diary shows, but the
  fought on to the last.
 Captain Scott's diary was written methodically, day by day, from the departure of the Terra Nova in 1910 to the moment in March, 1912, when with death actually in the tent pitched for the last time in the froz- en waste of the great barrier the dying commander wrote:
 The end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For Gods sake look after our people.
 Published in facsimile, the last lines, although they are penciled by | the hand of a man suffering physi- cal agonies due to frozen feet and I, the resultant commencement of modification spreading upward and to acute mental distress and almost at the actual point of death, are marked by masculine firmness and complete absence of tremor. Scott, next to the blizzards and | the phenomenally low tempera- | lures on the barrier, ascribed the | disaster mainly to the astonishing | failure of Petty Officer Evans, a | physical giant. A study of the di- aries shows the course and causes | of the failure. The first allusion to Evans froz- en hands, January t7, 1912 says this compelled premature camping. A week later Evans nose was frozen | and his fingers were badly blistered. | Scott wrote:
 He is a good deal run down. He is very much annoyed with him self, which is not a good sign.
 January 29, 1912:
 Evans dislodged two finger | nails. His hands are really bad | and to my surprise he shows signs of losing heart over it. He has not been cheerful since the accident.
 Evans Unable to Work.
 There are several subsequent en- tries. February F Scott writes: "A very terrible day. Evans looked a little better after good sleep. He declared, as he always did, that he was quite we'll and started in his place in the traces, but an hour later he worked his ski shoes adrift and had to leave the sledge. The surface was awfully soft, recently fallen snow clOgging the ski runners at every step. After we had stopped an hour Evans came up again, but very slowly. Half an hour later he dropped out again on the same plea and asked Bowers to lend him a piece of string. I cautioned him to come on as quickly as he could. He answered cheerfully, as I thought. We had to push on and the re- mainder of us were forced to pull very hard and were sweating heav- fly.
 CtellS ENdllo lOlS way doOtl II we camped for lunch. There was no alarm at first. Evans still not appearing, we looked out and saw him still far off. By this time we were alarmed and started back on skis.
 The Death of Evans.
 q was the first to reach the poor man. I was shocked by his ap- pearance. He was on his knees, his clothing disarranged, his hands un- covered and frost-bitten, a wild look in his eyes. I asked what was the matter. He replied with slow speech that he did not know; he thought he must have tainted.
 We got him to his feet, but after two or three steps he sank down again and showed every sign of complete collapse.
 Wilson, Bowers and I went for the sledge. Oates remained with him. When we returned he was practically unconscious. When we got him into the tent he was quite unconscious and died quietly at t2:30 in the morning.
 "On discussing the symptoms we VMfE~w- O~E-~~ H~-