SOUTHWARD HO!

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 833, 3 June 1910, Page 5

SOUTHWARD HO!

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S OBJECTS AND FUNDS. SCIENCE NOT SECONDARY. CAPTAIN BARTLETT WITNESSES THE SAILING. Hy Teleirrnpb—Preaa Association—Onoyrltrtu (Rec. Juno 2, 9.35 p.m.) London, June 2. Captain Scott's Antarctic exploration ship Terra Nova sailed to-day, under the White Ensign, Lieut. Evans commanding. Many ships in the river were dressed with flags and streamers, and sirens saluted tho Terra Nova. Dr. Charcot, the French Antarctic explorer—who has returned to Guernsey (Channel Islftnds) from his Weddell Sea expedition in the "Pourquoi-Pas sent his good wishes. Renter's interviewed Captain Scott, who said he hoped that the total cost of tho expedition would be within .£50,000. The Mother Country had done its part, and he hoped to arouse interest in . tho overseas Dominions when he visited South Africa and Australia. Failing. this, tho funds would bo insufficient to complete the expedition's work. Scientific considerations would not bo sacrificed to a mere Polar dash. Captain Bartlett, who went with Commander Peary close to the North Pole, and who will lead the projected United States expedition to the Antarctic, witnessed the sailing of the Terra Nova. .He stated that the United States expedition intended to start fo'r the Antarctic in 1911, commencing in the Weddell Sea. He could not say whether the expedition would bo absent ono or two seasons. Sir George Reid (Australian High Commissioner) went to the West India Docks, and bade farewell to the officers and crew of the Terra Nova.

PICKED BLUEJACKETS FOR THE ■ antarctic.

No vessel afloat will have a finer crew than the Terra Nova, Captain Scott's ship for the South Pole expedition. "It will be the best crew it is possible to obtain anywhere," said a member of the expedition.

All are picked men, selected by Captain Scott himself, from the naval depots at Portsmouth and Chatham, and granted special leave by the Admiralty for the expedition. Most of them are first-class petty officers who have seen service in his Majesty's ships in all quarters of the g.obe. A few of them accompanied Captain Scott in His dash to the south m the Discovery. Mr. C. R. Meares, the Tibetan traveller, has completed the purchase in -Eastern Siberia of thirty sleigh dogs and twentyEcven Siberian ponies for. the shore expeditions. These animals jvill be shipped to Zealand and picked up by the Terra Nova there.

It is announced that Surgeon George Murray levick, of the Royal Navv, lias been appointed medical officer to the expedition.