ANTARCTIC CHRISTMAS
MISERABLE POLAR DAY FOR BYRD’S MEN By RUSSELL OWEN Copyrighted, 1928, by the “New York Times’’ company and the St. Louis “PostDispatch.” Ail rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the “New York Times.” Reed. 9 a.m. BAY’ OF WHALES, Wed. This is Christmas, and the best thing we can think of is that a month from now the ships should be here, and in another month, if all is well, we shall be where there are unfamiliar trees and grass, trolley-cars and noises.
We probably will be run over by automobiles on our first day ashore. It is a mist % able summer Polar day, with soft snow underfoot and a drab sky above, such a monotony of white and grey that unless there is a little dirt around it is impossible to see the surface, and there is no horizon, just a bowl of gruel in which objects stand out as if resting on air. Thirty of us have not seen land or anything resembling it since landing on the Barrier a year ago today.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 855, 26 December 1929, Page 9
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180ANTARCTIC CHRISTMAS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 855, 26 December 1929, Page 9
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