Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-28
BYRD PARTY FINDS
AMUNDSEN CACHE
Gould Discovers Note Left
Under Mount Betty Rock
Cairn in 1911.
Continued From First Page

| Christmas wishes and certainly in
tended to reciprocate, but we have been
| travelling at night and got all balled up
on the time. However, we did have a
glorious Christmas thrill, the memory
of which we shall all cherish as long as
we live.
1--WE camped near Mount Betty and
! before leaving for Camp Strom decided
as last hope to look at a curious pile
| of rock far down on low ridge from
| the main mountain. It was agreed that
| Mike Thorne and I would ski over and
| take look and thus save bringing the
| teams, but this time we were not dis
| appointed.
$50 we signaled with our flags for
the rest to come and it didn't take
| them long to get there. Even the dogs
felt the excitement in the air and l1ur-
| ried, for we had found Amundsen's
/ cache.
Bare Heads in Silent Tribute.
''We stood about the cairn uncovered
| for a moment of silence in respect for
| the memory of the remarkable man
! whose hands had built it before we even
| touched a stone and then, as though
it were a sacred relic, we removed just
enough to see what was inside the
! cache.
1T contained a 5-gallon can of
kerosene in excellent condition, two
| small packages of matches and a tin
can. The tin can contained note by
/ Amundsen, a copy of which Freddy
Crockett will try to send 10 you, and
another bit of paper with the names
| and addresses Of Hansen and Visiting.
Byrd Note Put Into Cache.
"I put note in the can telling briefly
i IT,
| logical party. We took the liberty of
tearing open one package of matches
! and then carefully replaced each rock
and left the cairn just as we found it
| and Just as Amundsen left it 10 years
| ago.
| You may be sure this gave us all
| a great kick to bring to a close our
| Eastern trip in this way, and We would
| not if we could have had any different
Christmas. Must spend just few
days here before we start home"
Capt. Amundsen's Message.
Capt. Amundsen's message. written
in Norwegian, was translated as fol-
| lows:
Jan. s. 1912.-Arrived and .encircled
| the South Pole Dec. 14-16, 1911.
Have confirmed Victoria Land so it
| is most likely that King Edward VII
Land has no connection at 36 degrees
| South latitude with Victoria Land.
Also shows this land continues in a
colossal mountain range toward the
southeast. Could see this enormous
! mountain range to SO degrees South
latitude and most likely. from appear
| ances, they continue further in the
same direction over the Antarctic Con-
| tinent.
| Passed this cache on our return from
the South Pole with provision for so
days, two SledS and II dogs. All well.
ROALD AMUNDSEN.
The Importance OF DR.. Gould's dis
| coveries to the east was emphasized
today by Admiral Byrd.
Byrd Flight Data Confirmed.
"I believe that geographers have
thought of the area east of Capt.
Amundsen's trail south to the Queen
Maud Mountains as being land forming
part of great continent" he said.
From an altitude of 5000 feet on
days of good visibility we scanned the
eastern barrier, but saw no land. Be-
tween Little America and IS degrees
south latitude our photographs taken of
the so-called Carmen Land indicated
that
THE mountains ran very little north
of IS degrees. There were some huge
pressure ridges that gave the appear
ance of land and fooled us at first.
I'm other words, there was no evil
dence that the great Ice Barrier does
not run hundreds of miles to the east
| ward. Now Dr. Gould verifies this indi-
! cation by travelling on foot well be-
| yond the mountain range, as indicated
| on the map. and saw no range running
north of latitude IS degrees Is minutes.
This means that hundred miles of
the 'Carman Land mountains will have
| to be taken off the maps. The barrier
| curves around the Charles Bob Noun
| tains south of east beyond lat degrees
west longitude, but it is impossible to
| say how far.
IT wish to state emphatically again
| that this is no reflection on Capt
| Amundsen's findings. as foot traveleS
would naturally mistake the enormous
| pressure ridges for snoW-capped noun
| trains
Rome Fetches Amundsen Book.
The Amundsen message greatly in
terested us all, particularly the Nor
wegians in the expedition. Martin
Rome, who was with Capt. Amund-
sen on the South Pole expedition and
who made their windproof clothes and
other articles, and who also made the
| northeast passage of the Arctic Ocean
with Capt. Amundsen, came running
into the library with his autographed
! copy of Capt. Amundsen's book of the
south polar journey, which the explor-
er had given him.
"See, it tells here!" he shouted,
and began to read in Norwegian.
! The book relates reaching the bar
rier cache at latitude IS degrees min
utes s., after the trip down the Axel
Heiberg Glacier and making prepare
lions for the last stage of their jour-
! ney homeward. 1t continues:
When we had completed all this
repacking and had everything ready
two of us went over to Mount Betty
and collected as many different speci-
mems of rock as we could lay oul
hands on.
AT the same time we built a great
cairn and left there a can of II literS
OF paraffin, 2 packets of matches, con-
tanning 20 boxes, and an account of ouI
expedition. Possibly some one may
md use for these things in the fu-
ture."
Visiting of Note Still Alive.
There is a slight discrepancy in the
book on the amount of food taken with
the party, for he says that when they
left their depot they had provisions fol
IS days instead of so, although he adds
| Besides this, of course, we had
depot at every degree of latitude ur
to go"
This may explain the difference II
the estimate of his food.
The two men whose names were
found on pieces of paper are Helmel
Hansen and OSkar Visiting. Visiting
and Hansen were with Amundsen or
the northeast passage and Visiting
stood at one of the controls of the
Norge on the flight which Capt
Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth made
from SpitZbergen to Alaska
OF the five men who went to the
| SH~ya