It Happened To-day. SCOTT AT THE SOUTH POLE
Twenty-three years ago, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Captain Oates, Lieutenant Bowers, Dr. Wilson and Petty Officer Evans reached the South Pole, but discovered to their intense disappointment that they had been forestalled by Captain R. Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer. Says Scott: “The Pole. Yes, but under very different circumstances from those expected. . . . To-night little Bowers is laying himself out to get sights in terrible difficult circumstances; the wind is blowing hard, temperattire minus 21 degrees, and there is that curious damp, cold feeling in the air which chills one to the bone in no time. . . Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority. Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend tomorrow. We have had a fat polar hoosh in spite'of our chagrin, and feel comfortable inside—added a small stick of chocolate and the queer taste of a cigarette brought by Wilson. Now for the run home and a desperate struggle. 1 wonder if we can do IL”
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 7
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187It Happened To-day. SCOTT AT THE SOUTH POLE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 7
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