"ANOTHER PERSON WITH US"

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 110, 3 February 1920, Page 7

"ANOTHER PERSON WITH US"

f—: SHACKLETON'S WONDERFUL STOR3!. "When I look "back at those days," writes Sir Ernest Shackleton, "I have 110 doubt that Providence guided us, not only across those snowfields,, but across the storm-white ee.'t tibat separated Elephant Island from our landing-place on Soii'li Georgia, "I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-sis hours over the unnamed mountains ,and glaciers of. South Georgia it seemed to me often that? we wera four, not three. I said notihjjig to mv companions on the point, but i afterwards Worsley said to me, 'Boss, I had a curious feeling on the march that there was another person with us.' Crean confessed to tho samo idrn , "One feels 'thf dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to' describe thinfis intangible,-but a record of .'our journeys would be incomplete' without a reference to a subject very near to our heavta.* '■ Two. pounds per man was ,the allow, ancc; so "sovereigns were thrown away mid photographs were kept. ■ I tore the fly-roaf" out 'of the Bible that_ Queen Alexandra had given to tllie shin, with ■ lier own writing. in it, and also tlie wonderful page, of Job containing the verse:-* 'Out of whose womb came tho ice?. And. tho hoary frost of Heavnn, who hath gendered it, The waters arc hid as with l a stone, And the faco of the deep is frozen.'"