IN THE FAR SOUTH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 221, 13 November 1900, Page 1

IN THE FAR SOUTH.

Thi following ate soma txtraots fro** the paper read by Hew Sorehgierteok at the British AasoeUUoa motttaa al Bradfoid. His party ot tsa laadoias Victoria Land on Marob Ist, and their steamer left thtm there for nearly a you, Thiy foand th* land my high and precipitous, aad the alii* »won* RoberUon Bty, wbara they bs It stona hnts to lire in, aro'aboasands of f ot high, and the land rtaw not f r away into nwonsians 13,000 fvotb-ith.' Thi weather expsritnoed wa* roomily molsteroas, powerful gala* b*Ug at Tory frsqutat ocoarrano*. Immeao* glancitr. dosoend into the sea, and ar* so mnoh broken with erovetaee tits* they oou'd t»rooly be wwaweV Penguins began to arm* for t r idini on October 15th, and itmly th«* were immense naabar* of btidt novo* daring the simmer months. Thsr* are ne land snunalaixaspt a fcw |s> seots among the booms. On OhrLt* mas Day, no ieo was visible tt the north, on January 10th there was cpsn w ter In eveiy direction, and to* weather wa* appreciably warmer; yet on the 26th, wnen the ataamr Seu'h* ern Cross returned for th* fmtr, h*r mists and yards wan covered with mo, Mr, Borohgtevlnoh aonatad tfc* grata ioe-sheet, and foaod thai cboagh ragged and broken op ieti ail so t* of stupts near the edge, farther baok il rises in an immense unbroken fUt towards the tooth, fit believrdtlul plenty of reindeer sledges and dags, a paity oould con'd travel a long w.y on this iee-eheet in a short t&f*. In Robertson Bay, the ke ftvs* to * thkkoeis ot 50ft, elsewhere, owiu< tj ttrong oarrauts, io did not fret z< tie* yonda oonpleof feet thick. Ato id detl of the land aboat the out ot Viotorla Land wis bars of truw or ioe. The party made many magaetw and metoorologioal obttrvations, bat their chief claim it to have proved that an exploring party can winter oa the Antarctic oontinont.