Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-01-14 | Page 1 | To Eat or Bury Mate, is Puzzle for Explorer

TO EAT OR BURY ITE, IS PUZZLE FORJXPLOREH Sir Douglas Mawson Tells How He Debated Question Ques-tion When Last Com rade Died SAYS HE IS GLAD HE BURIED THE BODY Survives After Living on Meat of Single Dog for Thirty nine Days, Will Lecture in U S II 1 ema wuaJ Nawa 6Ja rl v YORK. Jan. . After Dr Me a Jlad I debated with myself for two Jars wha m to aa him or bury h m I flnallr burled I Im V ma I loo off my boots, she soles of my feat came off wl h them. There wa nothing to do but bandar a tba pMcsa ba k on and pro-sad In agoojr toward my base Js ssssti m ( I bsjail aauab SMat of a atUl ft aa- U thorn days another raan bad Mm Brine on that aasM dot For tbJatt'-ooa ara I was alow on the 1c. I Sd oo solsa on my feet and raj ball- all fB out. But finally 1 got bark to my baa The are lbs htch spot a uarra live told today by lr Douglas Mawson. who arrived on th cuoanUr Orduna and purposes to lectin- before lb Anatrlcan Geographic society oo bis ciploratlons In th Antarctic Sir Dovgtaa and two com pan one Ueu , tn.nl B H Mr of the British navy and Pr kUrta, Swiss ski champion, sat out from their bass In Amelia lnd In 1U to make obserraOona of lb geographical and arcbasloaicsl features of Hi so h polar con loent LlouUnant Slnnes fell to death through s crsvasa and Dr Mem nuxumbsd to a psrfora tlon of the Intestines Sir Douglas says he does not know how bs I mself came through sllvs. but admits ui no '-t '-t banks every day that h. burled Dr Merta Instead of eating him. Grewsorne Debate He died January 1U said r DougUs in describing tola part of bis adventures I was swfully short of food and about 10 miles away from our base, and 1 debated for two days on th mat Te7 of eating Merta. But 1 nnally de cWed that If 1 ever did get . back to civilisation It would leave a bd taste , In my moutl forever So I burled him In a hole In the Ice and pushed on The expedlUon discovered acoordlng h fessai Th' CS 220 mlleV an hour on the wind gauge. The mean temperature Is about 6 de grels abo e serb but the mercury sinks past i degrees below rero At Source of Storms j On the trip out the party dls overed that by wire ess they cou d not ly the AuVtra Ian coast st least forty e ght hours before the arrival there of a hur ; ricane. Other Important d scoveries were made and the out t IP was oneucces LTn of triumpl s wl h no untoward In rldents But when the 1 tt party turned to T Retrace Its steps mlsfor unes came ' ACfte?''llr,Douglas reached h s basa on thi roast he found the ship they had come in the Aurora had Just left for tnTFalUands and would not return for months A Bearoh party of s x men had fien eft, so the sole surv or of the ex ped tloi was (dven good ca o and nursed b" Thelasf day of my trip I 1 ad cooked invsef a fine neal of dog eat, sad Ti ! Mawson When I jot k to real food I was ravenous ani he best th ng we had was pengu n eggs. In the time ," La ted tor the Auro a to return the Teven of us ate 7000 of these bol ed fried poached a d scramb ed. And as wo had ri enty of butter we nade o s of orae Pe lis This was the bwt way of all to cook the eggs