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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1929, Page 6

read in Norwegian. The book relates their reaching the Barrier cache at 85 degrees 5 minutes south latitude, after ti. 'ir trip down the Axel Heidberg Glacier,’ and their making preparations for the last stage of their journey homewaid. The hook continues: “When he had accomplished all this re-packing, and had everything ready, two of us went over to Mount Betty and collected as many different specimens of rock as we could lay our hands on. At the same time we built a great cairn, and we left there a can of seventeen litres of paraffin, two packs of matches, containing twenty boxes; and an account oif our expedition. Possibly someone may find use for these things in the future.” There is a slight discrepancy in tire hook on the amount of food taken with them, for, he says that when they left their depot, they had provisoins for thirty-five days, instead of sixty, although he adds: “Besides this, of course, we had a depot at every degree of latitude up to eighty,” which may explain the difference in the estimates of the food. Tiie two .men whose names were found on the pieces of paper are: Helmar Hansen and Oskar Wisting, who were with Amundsen on the NorthEast- Passage, and Wisting stood at one of the controls of the Norge on the fight Amundsen and Ellsworth made .from Spitsbergen to Alaska. Of those live who went to the South Pole and built the cairn found by Gould, only Wisting, Hansen and Bjaaland are alive. Hassel died in Amundsen’s home in Norway, and the great explorer himself perished in his attempt to fly to the rescue of the crew of the ill-fated Italia, of the later Nobile expeiidition.