THE QUEST.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1922, Page 5

THE QUEST.

CAPTAIN HUSSEY’S KETUKN, AFTER SHACKLETON’S FUNERAL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, May 27. Capt. Hussey has arrived in Southampton. He said that after the funeral of Sir Ernest Shackleton he had a strange and lonely time waiting the return of the Quest. In the dark of the *ea.4v morning on April 6 Hansen burst into his room with.“ The Quest is coming in.” The crew had scrubby beards, but were cheerful. There were some minor casualties during the cruise. Captain Worsley, the sailing master had several ribs broken and crushed by the lifeboat swinging out in a heavy sea. The airman, Carr, had a bad abcess on his face and was sent to hospital in the Island of South Georgia. Sir Ernest Shackleton’s death was painless and peaceful. There was a calm majesty about the funeral, which was held ori a placid afternoon following days of snow and tempest. Many humble whalers who sailed 46 miles to pay the last honours, were moved to tears at the graveside. His name was one to conjure with in the Antarctic, where to the end of time the rough Norwegian whalers in the long dark nights will tell the epic of his boat iourney from Elephant Island to South. Georgia.