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PAGE TWO for. Had wo lived, I should hnve had a tale to toll of tho hardihood, endur aaco and courage of my companion* which would have stirred the heart of Captain Scott, British Explorer, and Members of His Party Succumb in the Far South every Englishman. “ These rough notes and our bodiea would have don« better ia tbe weather ! secure the final supplies. which we encountered at this time of “ Surely misfortune could scarcely must tell the tale, hut surely, surely, TRAGEDIES OF POLAX the year. have exceeded this last blow. We t r a groat rich country like ours will see QUESTS “ On the summit, ia latitude 85 de rived within 11 miles of our old One that those who are dependent on ua (Signed) grees to 88 degrees, 10,000 feet lower, Ton I'amp with fuel for one bot meal are pro|>erly provided for. la 1846 Sir John Franklin tailed we had minus 30 in the d.iy and minus and food for two daya. For four days R. Scott, March 23, 1912.“ to tho Arctic with two ahipo. None 47 at night pretty regularly, with con we have been unable to leave the teut, These few words, manly and unaa of tho party wan over anon alive tiasous head wind» during our day the gale blowing about us. Ws are miming, mark the finest monument to again by civil land man. Many ox Captain Scott and the marches. It ia clear that them cir weak. Writing is difficult, but for the memory podltlona failed to find trace of cumstances came oa very suddenly and my own sake 1 do not regret this jour brave men whose lives ended with him. the miming explorer and hla men our wreck ia certainly due to this sud ney, which has shown that Englishmen Forma! honor will, of course, be paid until I860, when Captain McCUn- den advent of severe weather, which can endure hardships, help one another them. The world stauds ready to do tock brought back the record of Sir does not seem to have had say satia and meet death with as great a forti that. Already England has held ms John’s death in 1847. with relics factory cause. tude as ever ia the past. Wa took morial services for these men; already Indicating that the entire party “ I do not think human beings over risks; we knew we took them. Things England has aaswered that appeal, “ to had periahed la King Will lama rame through sneh a month as wr have have come out against ua and therefore ! mo« that those who depend on us are Land. In 1870 the bodies were come through, and we should have got we have no cause for complaint, but , pro|wrly cared fo r.“ found by Lieutenant Schwatka. through in spite of the weather but for bow to the will of providence, deter Surgeon Atchinson, in charge of the In 1881 lieutenant George W. the sickening of a second companion, mined still to do our liest to the last, relief party, gathered the records and DeLong and lieutenant Charles W. t'aptaia dates, and a shortage o f fuel “ Rut if we have been willing to give effect» o f the dead and read burial Crtpp. United States Nary, and in our depota, for which I cannot ac our lives to this enterprise, which is services over their bodies. A cairn and more t*»« half the members of the count, and finally but for the storm | for the honor of our country, I appeal cross were erected to their memory, Jeanette expedition perished in an which has fallen on within 11 miles ■ to our countrymen to see that those over the tent la which they were bur attempt to reach the Siberia! comet o f this depot, at which we hoped to ! who depend on us are properly eared j led. A record o f the finding of the after their ship was croaked by ice. In 1884 lieutenant James J. Gunsight Lake and Going-to-the-Sun Mountain in Glacier 'Park Lockwood and 18 member» of the Greeley expedition died of starva tion near Cape Sabine. Tbe others of the party were rescued by Cap tain W. S. Schley, who afterward became rear admiral. In 1887 Lieutenant S. A. Andre left Spitsbergen In a balloon, with the intention o f drifting over the polar regions. Two days later a carrier pigeon brought bach a mes sage, but no other word from Andre baa ever reached the world. In 1907 Dr. Mylitu Erichsen and two companions died o ff the north i east coast of Greenland. Tbe Scott Tragedy is the only disaster in tbe history of Antarctic exploration, so far as is known. Antarctic Has First Tragedy HE world is mourning Captain Robert F. Scott, British ex plorer. He reached the South Pole. More than a ye»r ago Captain Scott and hi» party came to the coveted region, January 18, 1912. At the pole Captain Seott and hi» men found the tent and records left by Captain Roald Amundsen when that explorer started back from the object o f his expedition. That date was De cember 17, 1911. about a month before Captain Seott reached the goal. News of the timgedy o f the Antarctic, the first of its kiad. was brought to civil ization by Captain 8 e o tt’a ship, the Terra Nova, whirh had gone to Cape Evans to meet the expedition and bring it» members back, providing they had completed their task or were ready to return. From the shore party left at the Cape Evans base it was learned that Captain Seott and the four men with him had reached the pole, but had perished on their way back. Cap tain Seott, Dr. Edward A. Wilson and Lieutenant H. R. Bowers had made tbeir war bark to within 153 milea of Cape Evans, when they were canght by a blizzard and avercome. This was about March 29 of last year. They were then within a few milea o f a food depot, whore sustenance and shelter would have been theirs. Previously Petty Officer Edgar Evaas and Cap tain L. E. O. Oates of the Inniskillen dragoons, who had been in charge o f the expedition’s ponies and dogs, had succumbed. Evans was the first to die. His death was the resnlt o f con cussion of the brain, sustained by a fall February 12. Oates died from ex posure March 17. Six other men, al though they had been through a peril ous experience, were found to be safe. These men had been sent to make geo logical investigations to the east of Cape Evans. Tbe records o f Captain Scott were recovered by a relief expe dition. Under the head of Captain 8cott was a written record of the trip, kept up until the very moment o f death. In his diary was found what the in trepid explorer called a “ Message to the Public.” This message is quoted here, word for word: “ The risks are not doe to faulty or ganization, but to misfortnne in all which had to tie undertaken. One, the loss o f the pony transport in March, 1911, obliged me to start later than I had intended and obliged the limits of the stuff transported to be narrowed. “ The weather thronghout the out ward journey and especially the long gale in tbe 30 degrees south, stopped ns. The soft snow in the lower reaches o f the glacier again redneed the pace. We fought these events with a will and conquered, but it ate into otir provisions reserve. ‘ * Every detail o f our food supplies, clothing and depots made on the in terior ice and on that long stretch of 700 miles to the pole and back worked out to perfection. The advance party would have returned to the glacier in fine form and with a surplus o f food but for the astonishing failure o f the man whom we had least expected to fail. “ Beaman Edgar Evans was thought the strongest man of the party and tbe Beardmcre glacier is not difficult in fine weather. But on onr return we did not get a single completely fine day. This, with a sick companion, enormously increased our anxieties. “ I have said elsewhere that we got into frightfully rough lee and Edgar Evans received a concussion of the brain. He died a natural death, but left ns a shaken party, with the sea son undnly advanced. But all tbe facts above enumerated were as nothing to tbe surprise which awaited us on the barrier. 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