Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26
BY LAWRENCE M. GOULD.
e Cepyright; 1890


BY LAWRENCE M. GOULD.
Copyright, 1907
wireless to The Star and the New York Times
LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica. JAM
uary 24.-On December we moved
farther westward to get at another spur
OF Mount NanSen, and Norman Vaughan,
Ed Goodale, Mike Thorne and climbed
again to the rockS-up ice faces where
We had to chop our steps, and over
ragged, pinnacled columns OF basalt-
lots OF fun and amazingly interesting
rocks.
Another days work about this side Of
Mount hansen, and then we headed
back down the glacier to make prepara-
tons for our trip eastward along the
foot OF the range. What a riot it is
driving the dog teams down the steep
slopes Of the glacierl The sledges are
gh-locked-ropes are put arount the
runners to prevent their sliding easily
and then the driver yells "Yake!" and
tries to keep his team from getting too
near another team, and away from any
chance crevasSeS.
Coming down, HORNS team and
EddieS got too close together and
mixed in one grand fight. I was slid
ing along between the sledges. Imme-
diately the fight commenced, and purely
from the standpoint of self preservation
tried to stop, but instead I slid right
into the middle Of the melee, and in
trying to extricate myself from the Jam
without getting bitten I parted the
dogs, and have not yet confessed to the
drivers that I did not deliberately try
TO separate the dogs for them. I am
sure an awkward dog driver, anyhow,
so that when I made . sfand Splurge
like this one hated to confess that 1t
was accidental.
Cache Is Located.
On the 18th Ed Goodale and I made
o successful search for the cache of
food and gasoline laid down by Admiral
Byrd before the polar night. We brought
the tood back to camp and glad to have
1t, for 1t gave us a great additional
margin OF safety for carrying out our
plans without taking too long chances.
On the morning of the 13th-and 1t
was Friday, too-we started on our
eastern trip. To our left the Barrier
was heavily blanketed with clouds. but
1t was brilliant, sunny weather over the
mountains, and what q setting for our
start!
We camped part way up Axel Hell
berg Glacier, with Mount Ruth Gade
towering above us-a fairyland setting
in this world Of white in the brilliant
sun.
How different 1t was the next morn
ing-sky overcast and snow beginning
to fall For three days we were snow.
bound.
Time hung heavy on our hands
When we left Little America each man
was allowed to bring one book, but, of
course, these had been left at Strom
camp when We started eastward.
Some one had brought a pack of
cards, so we played hearts, with our
daily issue of chocolate for stakes.
On the 7th, when the sun returned
we dug ourselves out and we're under
way again; very heavy SledRinR and
skiing. Directly ahead of us the sur
face was so badly crevasSed that we
had to head out into the barrier to 60
eastward.
Ice Field Extends for Miles.
We looked out away from the noun
tains and to the east, and the surface
was ice as far as we could see. But
We had decided to 60 eastward at least
as far as Marie Byrd Land, which be-
gins at the 150th meridian. In my log
for the 10th find that:
I'VE headed out to avoid the ice, but
It was no use; soon became so bad that
we couldn't stand on our skis, but had
to take them OF and hang on to the
sledges. Ice was fairly smooth at fifst,
but after about two hours travelling we
found ourselves in an area that had
been much crevaSsed.
so we often crashed into them with
our Sledges. We wrecked one of our
best sledges and had to abandon 1t,
and badly damaged the runners on the
others. We had to travel IS miles be-
fore we could find piece of snow big
enough to anchor our tents on"
Same thing over again next day, but
most of 1t downhill, as we made an
other IS miles to flnd ourselves well to
the east of the 150th meridian and In
Marie Byrd Land, on American terri
tory here in the Antarctic.
Again we slipped and skidded our
way on skis up to the nearest mountain,
which we climbed, and which, with Ad-
miral Byrd's permission, we want to
call Supporting Party Mountain.
We had proved there was no Car
men Land and we had reached Marie
Byrd Land and so, after making some
glacial observations and collecting some
rocks, we headed back toward Strom
camp.