CAPTAIN SCOTT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1383, 8 March 1912, Page 5

CAPTAIN SCOTT.

AN EXPERIENCED EXPLORER. Captain Robert Falcon Scott has been described as a. man of keen sentiment and enormous enthusiasms, hidden below the sujfaee of a, very placid and unconcerned demeanour. The traditions of the naval service on the one hand and of the great explorers on the other inspire him. Cleanshaven, with a strong and determined face, tight firm lips, and keen but kindly lighfc-blua eyes, he is forty-two years of age, He was thirty-three when ho first set out towards the South Pole in the wonderful but too exepensive and not overKitisfactory Discovery, in which he made the great expedition which penetrated farthest south for the time being. That was in 1901, and extended the approach to the South Polo nearly 100 miles oyer the previous record, reaching a point in south latitude 80.17, 670 miles from the Pole.' Shackleton, in his 1908 expedition, reached latitude 88.23, and hoisted the flag of England 111 miles from the Pole. That exploit stands as the Farthest South yet reached by man. Here are further touches to the picture of Scott. "He has something of the bulldog look not rare among naval officers . . not the sort of man who would turn back while he could go-on, one would say . •'. . . but he doesn't look as if he had the habit of quoting poetry either . . . thorough-going, level-headed, business-like, with enough imagination for a leader, and most determined in a quiet way--that is the impression Captain Scott gixif.''