COPY'S ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 81, 31 December 1919, Page 7

COPY'S ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION

RED INDIAN AND BOY SCOUTS. Commandej John L. Cope, the organiser of the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition, which is to embark on tho Terra Nova next June, is now inviting applications (states the "Daily News") from scientists to join him oil his five years' cruise to extend our scientific and commercial knowledge of the South Polar regions. He particularly desires to hear from fully-oualified men in the following' branches of scientific knowledge: Geology, meteorology, biology, photography, surgery, and physiology, cartography, and hydrography. His party will pumber 51—17 for shore work and 31 in the ship—and will include a. number of Scott's and Sbackleton's men. Among numerous applications to ioin tho expedition are several from women—one of them a demobilised W.R.h'.N.—who are willing to undertake anv kind, of useful work so long as they can share in tho groat adventure. * "Of course, we havo had to refuse their re((u'ests," raid the commander, "though I havo induced them to take up at. home the work o f , knitting Balaclava helnieta end other woollen comforts" "T -have also had lots of letters from absolute youngsters of no experience, including some Boy Scouts. They are very keen to go, but I need scarcely add that we cannot, accept them. 1 "Applications have come from Spain, 'Sonvav. Russia, and Canada. Tn the last category is one from a Red Indian, who savs that his little trails with dog teams ill tho snows of Northern Canada have trained him for such hardships as the expedition will have to face. He askc- me. in hi" broken English, to let him know whether I can accept him, so that ho can get himself fit, if necessarv, |tn travel 500 miles a dav—ah imnossible distance in the time. He adds that lie has a GSin. chest expansion, and hopes to ex l end it to seven inches." Before it leav* Britain (he Terra Nova will vis't the chief iiorls of 'he country. Tn the interval it will be fitted with oil engines and another deck to convert it inlo a "flush-deck ship."