Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-27
LURID TALE TELLS
 ARCTIC ADVENTURES

steak ne had ever eaten. Dicturiuu region where the average velocity of the wind is fifty miles where bunt. ing flag goes Co shreds in a few min utes, a flag of stoutest canvas is threshed Go pieces in an hour and a flag of tin is shattered out of shape in the first gale, SO that sheet iron is the material that must he Hsed: de- scribing sea elephants that weigh sometimes as much as four tons each and measure 20 feet in length; show ing pengpin rookeries so large and SO densely populated that from a want. age point they seemed like vast peb- blestrewn beaches instead of bird ocl onies Sir Douglas Mawson has ore sentcd before the National Geograph-. ic Society one of the most remarkable stories of polar exploration that has ever come from those region.
 In his account of his researches along the great Antartic continent discovered by Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes-whO was the same Admiral Wilkes who figured in the historic Trent" and removed from her. Ma son and Slidell Sir Douglas paid tri- bute 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 i'm American waters. was the ship that carried them to their base and finally brought them away. A midway base with a wireless relay station through which the party could keep in touch with civilization, iwas established at Mac quarie Island which was on the old sailing ship route between Australia and Cape Horn, and whose beaches are lined with the wrecks of many a ship The main base was established at Cape Deuntson, on the Antarctic Continent apd a second base several hundred miles farther east
 Pictures were brought back by Sir Douglas showing the nesting places of number of birds Of passage who go to the Polar Continent to nest and, whose eggs have never been seen before The birds and sea elephant were absolute strangers to fear. and would inspect the camera man with as much seeming interest as the cam era man inspected them
 The character of the winds that blow on the edge of the Antartic Con unent was graphically shown by the fact that the men had to lean out upon it. at an angle of perhaps 45 de- srees, 10 waib in the ordinary wind while no camera could record anything but a blank when the blizzard was at its height The hut which was the headquarters Of the party, had one window, which was iu the roof The breath of the men and the steam ot t1e kitchen caused this to become frosted over to thickness of five inches Men going out to take the records 'she archaeological iustra- meuts had Co break the ice that ir0ze 1e,ora their faces. from one side of their hoods 10 the other. and pictures showing how their faces were covered with great patches Of frost-bite told an eloquent story of suffering.
 But the scene was not an sombre
 The cellar was a natural refrigerator. and consisted simply of the space un. der the floor of the hut When the : cook wanted a piece of meat he would ' send a dog down to get a penguin or 9 leg of mutton, and would take 1t away from as he came out One day the dog got away with a leg of mut.
 ton, which was rescued only after a
 chase of two hours; and then i twas so damaged that the party voted to
 give it Co the dogs after all Reading
 matter was iu great demand One of the party read the Encyclopedia Bri
 tannica through to the O's
 Upon one occasion Sir Douglas sci
 out witt Dr. Mertz and Lieutenant
 Ninuis on 9 coast-charting eXpendi
 ton After going about 200 miles Min.
 his and u'. sledge were lost iu d
 great cresasse. Hours of calling
 biought no response. and the smashed
 to-pieces sledge at the bottom. told a
 painful story Of his fate. Thereafter Mawson and Nertz turned around
 and started back 10 camp They at, an the dogs one by one as they died by starvation. Finally there was only one dog left old Ginger "Old Ginger was noble animal" said Sir Douglas 'and he was game to the last But when he oied of 'that sheer hunger of the Autartic wilderness of fee anS snow, Meria and ! had to eat hi. carcass, We ate the bony part first breaking every bone SO aa lo get ou the marrow Raw dog meat may moi sound well at the distance or wher /, che is.ilr removed from the uItimat, hunger in which the stomach seem. to attack its very self but there i tasted as good as auything you ever ate
 Finally Mertz began to sicken auC to weaken, and in a few days Jan nary 17th it was, he diod I almost turned canlhbal SO staryed-out wa. my condition, but with it an ! buried him. and then started bavk on th' hundred mile journey that lay be