Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-28
RETURN TRIP DESCRIBED.

The return of Road Amundsen to
his depot near Mount Betty on his
return trip from the South Pole is
described at length in his book, 1.-THE
South Pole" which was translated from
the Norwegian by A. c.. Chatter and
| published in New York by Lee Keedick
in 1918.
Our progress down the Heiberg
Glacier" Amundsen wrote, did not en-
counter any DISTINCTIONS; only at the
| transition from the glacier to the Bar
rier were there a few crevasses that
had to be circumvented. At z am. on
January 6 we halted at the angle of
land that forms the entrance to the
Heiberg Glacier, and thence extends
northward. We had not yet recognized
any OF the land we lay under, but that
was quite natural as we now saw it
| from the opposite side. We knew,
| though, that we we're not far away from
our main depot, IS degrees minutes S.
| ON the afternoon of the same day
we were off again. From a little ridge
we crossed Immediately after starting
Bjaaland thought he could see the
depot down on the Barrier, and it was
! not very long before we came in sight
| of Mount Betty and our way up. And
now we could make sure with the
| glasses that it really was our depot
that we Saw-the same that Bjaaland
thought he had seen before. We, there
fore, set our course straight for it and
| In a few minutes we were once more
on the Barrier-January 6, IL pm
after stay of 81 days on the land. It
was on November II that we had begun
the ascent.
we reached the depot and found
everything in order. The heat here
| must have been very powerful our
| lofty, solid depot was melted by the sun
| into rather low mound of snow. The
| pemmican rations that had been ex-
posed to the direct action of the suns
rays had assumed the Strangest forms
and, of course, they had become rancid
We got the sledges ready at once, taking
all the provisions out of the depot and
loading them.
Old Clothes Left Behind.
| 1--WE left behind some of the old
clothes we had been wearing all the
way from here to the Pole and back.
When We had completed all this re-
packing and had everything ready, two
OF us went over to Mount Betty. and
collected as many different specimens
of rock as we could lay our hands on.
At the same time we built great cairn,
| and left there a can of II litres of
paraffin, two packets of matches-con
tanning 20 boXes-and an account of
our expedition. Possibly some one may
md use for these things in the future
We had to kill Frithjof, one of
Bjaaland's dogs, at this camp. He had
latterly been showing marked signs of
shortness of breath, and finally this be-
came so painful to the animal that we
decided to put an end to him. Thus
brave Frithjof ended his career. On
cutting him open it appeared that his
lungs were quite shriveled up; never
theleSs, the remains disappeared pretty
quickly into his companions stomachs.
What they had lost in quantity did not
apparently affect their quality.
Niger, one of Hassel's dogs, had
been destroyed on the way down from
the plateau. We thus reached this
point again with IL dogs. as we had
reckoned on doing, and left 1t with IL.
l see IN my diary the following remark
Ihe dogs look just as well as when
we left Framheim.
ON leaving the place a few hours
later we had provisions for 35 days on
the Sledges. Besides this, of course, we
had a depot at every degree of latitude
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