The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-25
MANSON Tells
0FADVENTURES
NEAR THE POLE
Antarctic Explorer Says he Ale
Meat of Starved to Death
Dogs.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Jan. 25.--
Telling Of Times when dog meat and
the meat of starved-to-death dogs at
that tasted better than any porter
house steak he had ever eaten; pic
turing a region where the average
velocity Of the wind Is fifty miles,
where, bunting flag goes to shreds
IN few minutes, flag Of stoutest
canvas Is threshed to pieces in an
hour. and flag Of tin is battered out
Of shape in the first gale, so that
sheet iron is the material that must
be used; describing sea elephants
that weigh sometimes as mach as
four each and measure twenty-five
feet in length; showing penguin
rookeries so large and SO densely pop
,llated that from a vantage point they
seemed like vast pebble-strewn
beaches, instead OF bird colonies, Sir
Douglas Mawson has presented before
the National Geographic Society one
of the most remarkable stories OF
polar exploration that has ever como
from those regions.
In Touch with Civilization.
In his account OF his researches
along the great Antarctic continent
discovered by Rear Admiral Charles
Wilkes-.who was the same Admiral
Wilkes who figured in the historic
Trent affair, in which be, during
the American Civil war, held up the
British packet Trent. and removed
from her, Mason and Slidell-Sir
Douglas paid tribute to the explorer
and his work.
Mawson and his. party undertook
the work under the patronage of the
Australian government The steamer.
Aurora, formerly plying in American
waters, was the ship that carried them
to their base and finally brought them
away. A midway base with a wire
less relay station through which the
party could keep in touch with civ
ildzatdon, was established at Mac
quarte Island, which was ON the old
SAILING ship route between Australia
and Cape Horn, and whose beaches
are lined with the wrecks Of many
ship. The main base was established
at Cape Dennison, ON the Antarctic
continent, and a second base several
hundred miles farther east,
Pictures were brought back by sir
Douglas showing the nesting places
OF a number of birds OF passage who
go to the Polar continent to nest and,
whose eggs have never been seen be-
fore. The birds and sea elephants
were absolute strangers to fear. and
would inspect the camera man with
as much seeming interest as the CAM
era man inspected then.
The character OF the winds that
blow on the edge Of the Antarctic con-
ttnent was graphically shown by the
fact that the men had to lean out
upon 1t, at an angle OF perhaps forty
five degrees, to walk in the ordinary
wind. while no camera could record
anything but a blank when the biz
zard was at its height. The nut which
was the headquarters OF the party,
had one window, which was in the
roof. The breath OF the men and the
steam OF the kitchen caused this to.
become frosted over to a thickness
of five inches. Men going out to take
the records OF the Chronological In
struments had to break the ice that
froze before their faces, from one
side of their hoods to the Other and
pictures showing how their faces
were covered with great patches OF
frost-bite, told an eloquent story Of
suffering.
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