PATHETIC.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 May 1913, Page 4

PATHETIC.

"Life,'' the well-known Australian monthly, in giving further details of the loss of Captain Scott and his comrades, chronicles several dramatic incidents which appear to have escaped tht> newspaper press. For instance, the night on which Captain Oa.teg stepped into the blizzard and died, to give his comrades a chance for life, was his birthday; he was 32 years of age. The party led by Dr Atkinson, which .started south in search of traces of tli e lost party, were equipped for a journey to the head of the Beardmore glacier, a march of 900 miles, ( for they supposed the .missing men had perished in the tangle of crevasses there. It was a surprise when only eleven miles beyond,. One Ton Hut, they caught sight of . the little teht standing in the .snow. It was a thrilling moment when, with the whole party stainding round', Dr Atkinson 'drew aside the flap of th? tent. Only three persons —Atkinson, Wright and Cherry Garrard—entered, and at first, in the dim l : ght, it was supposed that only one bnclv wa« there. Scott sat leaning against the tent pole with his diary placed at th? back of his head as a cushion, and his hand resting on Wilson. The two men were knitted together in closest friendship, and Scott died Iwith nis haind touching his dead comrade.