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Show TELLS OF SOUTH POLE TRIP Lieut. Shackleton, Who Got Within 111 Miles, Says Scarcity of Food Stopped Him. Washington. Lieut. Sir Ernes! Henry Shackleton. the British explorer ex-plorer who got within 111 miles of the south pole a year ago in January, and who recently was knighted for his work in the arctic regions, arrived from Europe several days ago and came to Washington with Ladj Shackleton. The lieutenant was presented tc President Taft by the British ambassador, ambas-sador, and received from him the medal voted by the National Geographical Geo-graphical society. Sir Ernest would not talk about Dr Cook. He said he believed Peary had reached the north pole, and thought 4 -J 4 , - , ;i .... - j Lieut. Sir Ernest Shackleton. Capt. Robert F. Scott, who commanded command-ed the. British national antarctic ex. pedition of 190O-'O4, and who will start out this summer on' another south polar quest, would have no difficulty In reaching his goal. "All that stopped us from getting there," said Sir Ernest, "was the lack of 50 pounds of food. With that we could have kept on. There were only four of us, but we were on a reduced food allowance from November 14 to February 2. In the desperate effort to make our supply last, we came down to a ration of 16 ounces a day. This was too little to keep the heat going in our bodies, and we had to advance the allowance to 20 ounces. Even this was too little. "I had to cut down the provisions and stores to a minimum. We started out with tinned jam and sardines and art" English pudding for Christmas day, and then had to cache them at our Srst depot. We did not eat the Christmas pudding until on our back, when we had our first square : meal in more than three months. We nad been hungry continuously all the time. i ' "Dogs are failures in the ahtarctlcs," the explorer said, In answer to a question. ques-tion. "This is on account of the drift. Were I to make another expedition t would change absolutely nothing over the last tlmevexcept that I would get a stronger .vessel.' ' "Anything alive? Well, the only thing I discovered was the colomba. 1 That, in plain English, Is the snow flea. He doesn't bite. Do I believe it possible to reach the south pole in an airship? Well, there would have to be a lot of experimenting first.'' f |