HOW CAPTAIN OATES DIED.
"A BRAVE MAN AND AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.'* Captain Seott writes: "Hi' was a brave soul. He slept through the night, hoping not to wake, but awoke in the morning. Jt was blowing a blizzard." Oates said. "I am just going outside, and may be some time."' He went out into the blizzard, and we have. not seen him since." Scott adds: "We knew that Oates was walking to his death, but though we tried to dissuade him we knew it was the act of a brave man and an English gentleman." On March 16 Oates was really unable to 1 ravel, but the others could not leave him. After his gallant death. Seott, Wilson and Bowers pushed northward, when the abnormally bad weather would let them, but they were forced to camp on March 21 in latitude 79 degrees 40 minutes south, longitude 169 degrees 23 minutes east. t eleven miles south of the big depot at One Ton Camp. A TERRIBLE BLIZZARD. I This they never reached, "wing to a blizzard which is known, f from the records, to have lasted nine days, overtaking them, and ■food and fuel giving nut.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 226, 12 February 1913, Page 5
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196HOW CAPTAIN OATES DIED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 226, 12 February 1913, Page 5
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