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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 231, 18 February 1913, Page 4

SUBLTME HEROISM. Some papers have altogether overlooked the man who is perhaps the truest hero of all these true men dead—the man who carried heroism visibly nearest to the suhlime. That man. of course, was Captain Gates, of the Inniskillens (writes Frank "Morion, anent the Antarctic tragedy). Tlis is the story that thrills the nerves and sighs to the heart of men. Tie had been ill. Against all these handicaps he had struggled on. Tiut, he hampered the little party, and he knew he hampered it. So, while there was possibly vet time, he wandered into the blizzard to die. Bitter cold and bitter hunger, and very bitter pain. The little tent amid the howling waste, the one point of human warmth in a world grown grey. And Oates walks out, his every step a pang—walks out to the throne of God. A deed like his makes it almost possible for a weary man to believe in anything. To I,lie others death came inevitably: bv him death was