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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Herald, 1923-03-08, Page 3r that without the tent they °mild never ? �� JOURNEY reach safety: But luck wee with them, for after the blizzard they found the'. • 1 THE WORT ! tent about half a mile away; it They were tired, hungry, 'frozen, and • frost bitten. The horrors of that re- turn�. �n.n, ., �•• FACED r•vn+r� inr+ A rTt_Y journey are blurred to my ttt�em- . dry,"writes lain Cherry -Garrard, "and. I know they were blurred to sty body EOE~ THREE EGGS, at the time., i think this applies Ito all of us, for we were 'much weakened' • and callous,. , . 1 know that we ',Horrors' lr f 134.Mde Tralunp an slept' on, the march. . p. , T know that Perpe .nal Darkness and our sleeping bags were so full of foe Intense -Cold • that we did' not worry if we spilt water . or howl's over them This jour "Had we lived, I should have had a hey had beggared' our language; s no talo to tell of the itardihiood_, endur- words °mulct express its horror." ante, and courage of my companions 1 They reached Cape Evans satelsnbut which woit]d have stirred the heart of it was a Tong time before they all re - which Englishman. These rough notes covered. ThIe three' eggs ware event- and our dead bodies, must tell the tale' wally taken to London, examined, and So wrote Scott, the great explorer, placed in the Natural History Museum, Mr. Cherry-Garrarcl's two compani- ons on the march -Dr. Wilson and Bowerst--were two of the party who perished with Scott on the return from the South Pole. The whole expedition spent three years in the Antarctic --three years packed with adventure. • "Thera Asses"! "Printers.' errors" are n.o new -thing; but it is inevitable that, while printing lastsy there must alwa3ns. be amusing, and sometimes' serious, rii'istakes'. We know: allabout that gallant colonel, the "bottle -scarred veteran" of a,farnous misprint, who, naturally an- noyed at this imputation an hie so- briety, received an apology, only to be worse off than before. "Of course.," said the offending jour- nal. "when, by an . unfortunate error we referred to him as a 'bottle -scar- red' veteran, it must have been evi- dent that what we intended was 'battle s'cared.' „ A curious printers' error was that: in the "Cambridge Chronicle, where a paper read' before a local society on "Rings under the Eaves of Old Houses'," in connection with fire pre- vention. was printed, "Rings under the Ears of Old Louses." This error is still to be found in the files. "Write clearly" is an injunction rarely followed. The author 'who, with, crabbed tali- graphy, wrote of "zigzag staircases had only himself to thank when they appeared as "219200" staircases. In a recent issue of ,a very serious magazine, which contained an article on a fatuous public man, the latter is made to say: "Whle under no allusion as to the head of ,them asses, I re- spect their hearts." "Them asses" should .have been the masses," es ,of course.' Not long ago, Sir Alfred Mond was bh,e victim of one, of those typographi- cal errors. It is v: ell known that he,is of the.Jewish race. A "report 'Of 'a speech he had made represented hail to have said ,that ".the ills from which we suffer will not abate until 'the na- tion eetur'ns to . pork. The porkers should be made to uaders'tand -this truth." It is understood that great excite- menet prevailed• in certain circles until it was explained that this, disastrous statement was the result of an unfor- tunate double misprint. 'The reference was, ot course, to the national need of getting -back to "work," not "pork," and it was the workers, and not the pigs', who were to be made to comprehend the neces- sity. when, on the return• journey from the south Pole, he and his . coiulianions were caught in a blizzard and perish- ed . The world lost Scttt's full account .of has own epic, feat, but it has gained another wonderful narrative -- the story of' how these other members of 'Scott's party made a journey under the meet severe conditions imagin able, endured sufferings almost worse than those experienced by the Polar Party itself, and all for what? For threePenguins' eggs! Clothed In Ice. The details, of this heroic undertak- ing, which was carried out with the 'object of learning more about the pen- guin, enguin, aro related by Mr, Apsley Cherry - Garrard in "The Worst Journey in the World," an account 'ot Scott's last Ant- arctic expedition, 1910-13, °speei'ally of the Winter, -Polar, and Search jour- neys. The Winter journey was that made bythe author and twe compani- ons for the eggs; the Jolar journey the one undertaken by Scott, with kris pickedmen, to the Pole; and the Search journey, that which wenn to look :tor- Scott when he failed to re-' turn. The Winter journey, which was to last six weeks,• was-ttom Cape Evans to Cape Crozier, where the penguins' nests were: It was necessary to make the trip in midwinter,ae later the eggs woti:ld be hatched. The way lay over the .frozen sea and • 'the great Ice Barrier.. "The horror of the nineteen days it took ne to travel from Cape Evans to Cape Crozier (the outward j+onrirey) ,would have to be 'experienced to be appreciated," writes Mr. Cherry-G'aen•a•rd. "It . is not pox- elideto describe it. . i I for one el had come to that ph f Point o suffering at which •I did not really cars if only T pould; die without much pain. They �•a`I,k . of the heroism of the; dying -they 1.4ti•e knowe it wautd be so easy to die. Thea trdubeenls t s , go on•- . , . Nearty all the time the, temperature ikas: below zero At one period over; 77 degrees below zero were registered 1.031,:>ti_ de+greeS of frost. The trouble WAS that sweat- from the body froze' .and acrumtilated: It passed just away from tire•fies'h and then became toe, •. -One cart try to imagine what it must have bean like struggling on through sai:ow blizzards with clothdng coveted lased° as well as outside with ice* When they got into their sleeping :bags the snow and ice melted, and they had to He all uight'in the water thus formed. Everlasting Night. Once, going from the comparatively warm tent to the outside, the author Weed his head to look round',' 'and bound he could not clove it back. His clothing had frozen hard as he stood— in fifteen seconds! For four hams he had to pull the sledge with head stuck up, and from that time they all took care to bend down into a pulling Peel- ' tion before being, frozen In. After a few day's the party were tea - 'felling it perpetual darkness. They had to use catntt:les• to light their way. Progress in the [lark was painfully Mow. - Fresh falls of snow made the Poing difficult, and •they had to rely-- pulling ely—pullinng one sledge . ahead and : going back for .the other, The ninth day they covered 1.1)a miles; the tenth, lijs SAS $ of Wisdom. Miles; and the eleventh, 1% miles. • They considered these quite good 1A wise man will make mare appoi'- n axchee---and Cape Crozier is sixty- amities than he finds, seven miles from gape Evans, the l Lazinessetravele slowly, and poverty journey there.and back being 134 soon overtakes it. miles. Don't bluff unless you've s'ometlling :Ater nineteen days of struggling" to bluff with; then you needn't. tlrey reveled their final camp, whdclt 1 Some peoplehold the key to the was within a short distance of the pen- situation and then ale too lazy to turn gums" tests., and they proceeded to,' it. build an, igloo. The oil tjnes•tion. wat'a worrying them a lot, Cor they were • new well within the fifth of the six tins they diad. brought. If the oil gave SOMEWHAT LIKE IT Scadhunter: